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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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.

On October 17, 1814, a 15-ft. wave of beer ran rampant through the streets of London.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.