The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

A network of hundreds of interconnected wineries in caves hides under the town center.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.