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

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

The other side is actually green.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.