The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

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

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

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

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.