Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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

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

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

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.