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A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Parking lot where a Chicago mayor was inaugurated under very sketchy circumstances.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.