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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

D.C.'s first central library was born out of a chance encounter with the philanthropist whose name it bears.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

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