Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.