The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”