Places finduriel Wants to Go

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

The young girl gained fame for her atypical size and was regarded as a curiosity by the Spanish aristocracy.

A delightful museum devoted to the history of books.

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

A site outside Pedraza, Spain where a plaque tells a tale of seven-legged creatures that were said to have once lived in the area—in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

An old, deep well, connected with a miraculous, divine rescue and the patron saint of Madrid.

In this 400-year-old hotel in Madrid, you'll find a comb in every room, an old clock, and maybe a ghost.

This little sun pays homage to a massive gate that once stood at this location.

This girder was hit by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War, but nobody knew about it until 2016.

Known as the Casa de las Siete Chimeneas, this haunted 16th-century manor has a dark, mysterious past.

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

These distorting, funhouse mirrors achieved fame in a renowned piece of Spanish theater.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.