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

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

More than 2,000 species of tropical plants call this nature preserve and sanctuary home.

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.