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

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

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

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.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Half of a house.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.