The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.