A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.