This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

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

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

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.