The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.