Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

Temple of a million beers.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.