The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

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

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

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

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.