This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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.

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

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.