The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

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

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

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

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

An open-air gallery and garden in North Lebanon with plans to continue growing.

The largest hewn stone in history.

Lebanese castle built by one man, over a lifetime.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

An intimate look into the apartments of Jounieh via cable car.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.