Places Added by Gerard Nolan

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.