A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

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

The longest hedge maze in the world.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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

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

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.