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

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

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

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

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

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.