Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.