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The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

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

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.