The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses separated by a bridge.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

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

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

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

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