A pair of club-wielding guardians stand watch over London's first public clock to feature a minute hand.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

A winery built on the site of a Gallo-Roman estate uses historical tools to recreate ancient vintages.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Get a taste of the Wild West and a glimpse into the gold rush in Goldfield's oldest continually-running business.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.