Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.