Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.