This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.