These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.