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

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Venice's island of the dead.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

This tiny 1930s Art Deco airport is a beautiful remnant of a bygone era.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

A community's effort restores the historical Maryhill Burgh Hall.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

The longest hedge maze in the world.