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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens