A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

Though it's not the largest, this one-kilometer outdoor market is reportedly the longest in Europe.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.