Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

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

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

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

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

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

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

The world's longest known cave system.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Become a prohibition rebel.