The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

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

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.