Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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