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Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

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Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.