A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.