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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

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.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

A small town lost in the mountains of southern Italy hosts the childhood home of one of the most famous saints of the 20th century.

This medieval Italian village was transformed into an architectural marvel by the famous "Papessa" Donna Olimpia.

Nobles would stage mock naval battles on this large lake at the Royal Palace of Caserta.

The childhood family home of Italian Marxist theorist and politician Antonio Gramsci.

Inscriptions found in the Majella mountains reveal stories of resistance and rebellion after the unification of Italy.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

A landmark in the history of technology and computing is hidden in a tiny Baroque chapel.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

This Roman amphitheatre was also the location of the first gladiator school.

These four fountains are said to have healing properties, with a glass of the 'miracle' water being given to Louis XII of France.