Victorian-era Londoners really wanted to believe this 17th-century cistern was actually an ancient artifact.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A spectacular remnant of an Adler and Sullivan masterpiece that was destroyed in 1972.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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