One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

A stone-filled garden in the heart of Edinburgh commemorates the father of modern geology.

This unassuming shed was the stage for a monumental event in British history.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.

One of four sister bronze sculptures dedicated to the widows and orphans of an 1881 tragedy.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

Over a decade ago, painted penguins mysteriously appeared around Berwick-upon-Tweed for no apparent reason.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This installation turns abstract economics into a stark, public spectacle.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.