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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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.

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

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This frog-themed restaurant was frequented by Picasso, Saint-Exupéry, and more.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

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

A Red Hook dive bar that is holding onto its roots.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.