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

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Pay homage to the quintessential P-town dive.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

This lesser-known Frank Gehry building houses a treasure trove of cinema history.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This is the largest cemetery in Ireland and the first cemetery museum in the world.

This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

Where a demonstration led to equal rights for one of California's most marginalized communities.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.