Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Historic Greenpoint theater, turned roller disco, now housing a chain pharmacy store.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.