The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

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

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

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

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

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

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.