An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A student driver's nightmare.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.