A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

A solemn memorial in a majestic setting that honors a 1692 tragedy.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The longest staircase lock in Britain.

A double cantilever system bridge that was designed to prevent flood damage.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

Several bricks indicate the various flood levels this crossing has survived over the centuries.

The half-finished remains of what would have been Scotland’s biggest piece of landscape art.

A remarkable feat of Victorian engineering across the Firth of Forth.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

This sculpture made up of 22 bulbous bronze figures reminds locals of massive Weeble Woobles.

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

A collection of historic buildings in central Birmingham blend seamlessly into the cityscape but have an interesting story to tell.