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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.