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An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

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

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.