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.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.