A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

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

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

One of the tallest buildings in Africa provides a great view of Johannesburg's unique geography.