A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

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

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.