A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

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.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.