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

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

It took more than 300 years to build this church, which is home to two sacred vessels believed to hold the blood of Christ.

A massive rock in the surf steeped in legends.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

People escaping slavery passed through the oldest house in Lombard, Illinois on their northbound journey to freedom.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.