The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.