Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

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.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Numerous stone coffins from different centuries, lined up in a sixth century basilica.

The remains of the last Gonzaga villa, a luxurious palace built in spite of an economic crisis.

This splendid mosaic embodies ancient Rome's fascination with the exotic allure of Egypt.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

This medieval church in Rome was almost destroyed following a terrorist attack in 1993.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.