The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.