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Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The only international border marker within the United States.

At Oklahoma Panhandle State University, a plaque marks a place once known as No Man's Land in the linear world and the fictional Kcymaerxthaere as well.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.