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Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.