The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

The Guinness Record holder as the "tallest cinema in the world" is a building with screens in almost every one of its 12 floors

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

The name of this suspended sculpture is Latin for "high horse," which is exactly what it is.

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

In 1190 one of the worst anti-Semitic massacres of the Middle Ages took place in a wooden tower which previously occupied this site in York.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

This 19th century police station now puts the history of the Manchester City Police on display.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.