A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

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

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

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

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

A kitsch shrine dedicated to the ogre-slaying folktale hero born from a peach.

This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.