The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

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

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.