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

A community gathering place that once housed half-ton tanks and the World's Fair.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

This historic building provides a powerful glimpse into the lives of Japanese Americans forced to relocate during World War II.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.