Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.