Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

Peek inside restored planes at this off-the-beaten-path collection of aviation archaeology.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.