Places disgrace Wants to Go

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.