Enjoy classic musicals with a home-cooked meal at this former staple of American social life.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).