Washington, D.C.
The Mansion on O Street
With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.
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Washington, D.C.
With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.
Washington, D.C.
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
Washington, D.C.
Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.
London, England
The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.
London, England
A collection of machines designed to break things for science.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.
London, England
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
London, England
This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.
London, England
This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.
Rangalifinolhu, Maldives
An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.
York, England
Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.
York, England
An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.
York, England
Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.
York, England
The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.