You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.