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A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

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.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Unlock the secrets of the conjuring arts.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.