These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

A different kind of swan princess.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

This classic Kansas City song reference is the place for anyone who wants to stand at the corner of 12th Street and Vine.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

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

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.