This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.