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

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.