The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

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.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

The social hall of this former factory is a Communist-era time capsule.