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

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A student driver's nightmare.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

A swaggering, monumental souvenir of the most extravagant party Montreal’s ever thrown.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.