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Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

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

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

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

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.

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

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.