A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

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

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

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

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

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

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.