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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

The home of an antique carousel still in operation.

A cultural center dedicated to the preservation of the Yiddish language and culture with over a million volumes.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

Each solstice, students and astronomy enthusiasts gather at a primitive but functioning sun wheel to witness how humanity first used this calendar.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.