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A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

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.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.