This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.