A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.