A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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.

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