A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

A Reformation-era fiery figurehead once denoted this location as a print shop.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

This concrete monster of a wreck lies in the mouth of Langstone Harbour as a monument to the incredible history of D-Day.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.