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A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

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.

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.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This remote outpost hosts the remains of one of Australia's key sites in the history of convicted laborers.

Now a museum, this was once a prison facility and a hospital for the “criminally insane.”

This site contains preserved ruins and industrial remnants of Western Australia's mining heritage.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

An impressive site containing some of the earth’s rarest living fossils.

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.

These two large, rusting pieces of machinery are relics of Australia’s gold mining past.