Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.
London, England
The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
Pilsen, Czechia
Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.
Shanghai, China
This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.
London, England
This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.
Yazd, Iran
Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Tintern, Wales
This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.
Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Swanage, England
65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.