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.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

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

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

An islet filled with wooden houses where the open sea meets a lagoon.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’s immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

According to myth, Zeus himself was hidden in this cave to escape being eaten by his dad.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.