A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

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

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.