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

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Hungarian self-built castle.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

A self-taught Siberian craftsman creates a fantastical and personal design for his 19th century village house.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.