The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Since the 1700s, this old barrel has acted as a post box that relies on the kindness of travelers.

Once a year, thousands of naked cyclists flood the streets of a Seattle neighborhood.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.