This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

The last remaining 19th-century tenement from Boston's old West End neighborhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

A home decorated by its owner with eye-catching and captivating assemblages of found objects

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.