Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This studio was home to David Bowie's first single, even if it did turn away the Beatles.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.