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

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

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

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

A tomb in the shape of a traditional Mexican hat and shawl for the father of modern rancheras.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.