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A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

London's old-school healing garden.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A student driver's nightmare.

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.