A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.