A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

This antique shop and tea room reside inside a twice defunct church that was moved stone by stone to its current location.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Featuring one of the most complete and original collections of Presidential memorabilia, this is the site of the last front porch presidential campaigns.