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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.