This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

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

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

The Origin of On the Origin of Species.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Memorializing the bravery of one young woman facing the monster of her age.