An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

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

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The last of its kind in the country.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.