This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

A hidden sculpture garden tucked within the middle of Brighton.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.