An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.