A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The oldest candy store in the world has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This eerily opulent residential museum is home to a haunting local legend.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

A woodland close to England's "most haunted village" has been the site of many unexplained events and deaths.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

Behind a modern brick exterior lies the oldest continuously-operating lunch-car diner in the United States.

These unknown Bronze Age earthworks are believed to be ancient burial mounds.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.