This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet your wish will be granted.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.