The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

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

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

A piece of the front end of a British cruiser that was used as a block ship in World War I.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.