A totem pole of heads to represent the different stages of life.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.