This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.