This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

A monument to one of the most famous modernist Chinese poems and its poet.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

On the side of a Virginia highway, a collection of monuments commemorates an 18th-century trek through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.