Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

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

An underground city of salt.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.

The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.