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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.

Twice a day, the water of the Petitcodiac River flows upstream in a surfable wave.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

A historic Montreal market that was the city's agricultural hub for over century.

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

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.