The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The bizarre story of the mysterious death and hidden treasure of one of Sanibel Island's early homesteaders.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.