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A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A plaque pays tribute to the artist's longtime London home.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

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

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Feast on Middle Eastern mezze from an Israeli expat duo.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.