The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

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

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.