A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

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

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

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.