The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Now a memorial to merchant sailors and Titanic victims, this medieval church was destroyed by bombing raids in 1940.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.