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Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

The ruins of a burned-down monastery have become a serene park and community space. 

Canada's oldest sugar maple has been growing since around 1500.

An architectural marvel built by a nearly forgotten Canadian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

An original apothecary from 1792.