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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.