This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

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

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

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Giant naked man on a hillside.