Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

More stones than Stonehenge, all scattered within a windswept landscape sure to enchant 'Outlander' fans.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?