This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This former nursery supplied plants for the creation of Chicago's largest park.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."