Asheville, North Carolina, was the the second place in the world to enjoy Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

This abandoned lock-up was saved because of its connection to a local football team.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.