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A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.