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

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

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Hungarian self-built castle.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

12th-century holy complex shares land with a natural park full of heavenly waterfalls and raptors.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.