After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

This historic boathouse was constructed using salvaged lumber from burned barns.

A tribute to the pop culture icon overlooks this Washington D.C. intersection.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.