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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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.

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

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.