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.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

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

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

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

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.