The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.