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

The World's Largest Bull.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

The largest United States military cemetery overseas.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

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

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

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

A local prank turned town icon.