This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Amazing collection of folly buildings in Cobham, Surrey.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.