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With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

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

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

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.