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

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

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

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

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

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.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Detroit’s Eastern Market has been transformed into an outdoor museum with colorful murals that address social issues and symbolize the city.