This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

This small museum is home to cannons cast by Paul Revere and the last remaining uniform of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

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

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

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

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

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