The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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.

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

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

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

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.