The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.