Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.