Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

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

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.