Melbourne, Australia
The Gothic Bank
This Melbourne bank has unique Gothic-style architectural features and is one of the most majestic operating bank branches in the world.
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Melbourne, Australia
This Melbourne bank has unique Gothic-style architectural features and is one of the most majestic operating bank branches in the world.
Melbourne, Australia
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Melbourne, Australia
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
Melbourne, Australia
This modern pedestrian bridge on the Yarra River was modeled after an Aboriginal fish trap.
Melbourne, Australia
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
San Francisco, California
This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.
Bordeaux, France
The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.