A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

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

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

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.