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

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The world's largest collection of mechanical puzzles is a cornucopia of analog bafflers.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

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

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.