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

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.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This little theatre at the end of the Urban Gallery in the Manitoba Museum plays silent films from stars who performed in Winnipeg.

A unique sculpture garden nestled among farm fields.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

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

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

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

The "world's smallest volcano" has been used to store meals and dispose of dead bodies.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.