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This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Because there's no place like home.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.