A storybook European village in Berkeley.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.