Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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

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

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

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.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.