This local celebrity earned his fame by doing a job no one else dared.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

This Indiana walk of fame honors music legends with record-shaped plaques in the pavement.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

This display showcases the culinary equivalent of steel-toe boots during World War I.

Local lore says passing infants through its holes could magically cure them of measles and rickets.

Chemical fertilizer in agriculture's origin story begins here.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

This plaque remembers a grave mistake that led to one local woman being buried alive.

Death hangs in the air here, where a 17th-century gibbet has been erected on a Neolithic tomb.

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.