Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A 16th-century footpath said to be haunted by a young girl that died trapped within its misshapen old house.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

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

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

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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.

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

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.