Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

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

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

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

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

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

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

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