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A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

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

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.