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

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

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

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.