Ottawa, Ontario
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A rare venue to buy specialty maps.
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Ottawa, Ontario
A rare venue to buy specialty maps.
Cheverie, Nova Scotia
Experience the magic (and science) of a camera with this giant structure that allows you to enter inside the camera.
Key West, Florida
Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.
Forks, Washington
This tree has witnessed nearly 1,000 years of history.
Lloc, Wales
The ruins of a stone tower with alleged (but unlikely) Roman origins.
Warrington, England
Hidden behind an industrial area, this is one of the very few such transporter bridges in existence.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.
Buffalo, New York
The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.
London, England
This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.
London, England
A masterpiece of Art Deco architecture hidden in plain sight in West London.
London, England
Order a salt beef-loaded beigel at any hour of the day or night at this East End institution.
London, England
This small, round building is the entrance to a bomb shelter built in anticipation of World War II.
London, England
One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.
London, England
This underpass became an unlikely piece of cinematic history after its appearance in 'A Clockwork Orange.'
London, England
An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.
London, England
A mysterious carving from 17th-century London seemingly depicts a young boy sitting on a bread basket.
London, England
Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.
London, England
A mineral spring that became all the rage in 17th-century England.
London, England
A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.
London, England
William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.
London, England
Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.
London, England
An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.
London, England
The grounds of this Jacobean estate contain one of the oldest mulberry trees in England.