English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.