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

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Bizarre Cavern.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.