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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

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

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

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.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.