The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

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.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.