A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

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

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

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

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