Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

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

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

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

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

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

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

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.