This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

A gift from Japan, 17th-century lantern stands among the cherry trees at D.C.'s Tidal Basin.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

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

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

When it comes to handsignals (and colonialism) rock always beats scissors.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.