A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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