This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

The remains of the oldest bone-headed dinosaur in North America.

A touching tribute to the "Wonky Donkey."

Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

This half-ton piece of the Alps sits at the base of the CN Tower.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

Along with his smaller donkey pal, he guards the museum’s exhibits and memorabilia.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.