Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

Take in the views of Big Ben with a Guinness in hand at this floating pub aboard a 1930s Dutch barge.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

Some of the most enduring novels in English literature were written within the walls of this Georgian-era building.

The home of two of Scotland's most important artists has been reassembled in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.