The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

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

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.