Chillingham, England
Chillingham Castle
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
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Chillingham, England
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
Liège, Belgium
A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
London, England
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
London, England
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Edinburgh, Scotland
360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
London, England
Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Rome, Italy
Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.