An unnatural lake in a naturally beautiful setting.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

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

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.