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

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.