This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

London's old-school healing garden.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.