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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

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

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

Lombardy poplars planted to imitate the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.

This colorfully-painted tunnel links two distinct parts of a historic neighborhood.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.