Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

New York's oldest magic store.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

An underwater city for the dead.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.