The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.