This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A student driver's nightmare.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

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

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

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.