The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

This secret garden has bloomed into London's most unique hub of urban creativity.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.