France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.