Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

Order bagels and lox from an iconic Jewish delicatessen with nearly a century of history behind it.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

London's old-school healing garden.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.