Los Angeles, California
Galápagos Tortoise Skeleton
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
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Los Angeles, California
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
Los Angeles, California
Because there's no place like home.
Los Angeles, California
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Boston, Massachusetts
An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.
Boston, Massachusetts
Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.