The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.