This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A student driver's nightmare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

A beautiful photography exhibition space housed in a former church.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.