Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

A pocket of jungle amidst urban expansion in Panama.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.