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

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The oldest building in Vancouver's Chinatown is now home to one of Canada’s largest contemporary art collections.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.