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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.