This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.