A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

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

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.