The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.