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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

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

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.