An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

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

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

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