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

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.