The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.