At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This unassuming passageway played a key role in one of the most important events in U.S. history.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.