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Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Stones for the guilotine

Paris, France

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, France

Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

Shakespeare And Company bookshop situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement.

Paris, France

Shakespeare and Company

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Phallic Balconies of Place d'Albertas

Aix-en-Provence, France

Phallic Balconies of Place d'Albertas

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

Clifton Hill

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Clifton Hill

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Toynbee tile at 2nd St and 2nd Ave in New York City, 2012.

New York, New York

Toynbee Tiles

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Looking across the Hudson River towards New Jersey, at night

New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Inside 41 Cooper Square

New York, New York

41 Cooper Square

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Union Square Metronome

New York, New York

Union Square Metronome

The most confusing clock in New York.

The southern portal of the Rove Tunnel.

Marseille, France

Rove Tunnel

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

Pitt Rivers Museum

Oxford, England

Pitt Rivers Museum

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The Sheldonian Theatre

Oxford, England

The Sheldonian Theatre

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

Duke Humfrey's Library at the Old Bodleian Library

Oxford, England

Duke Humfrey's Library at the Old Bodleian Library

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

(Flickr/dbking)

U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado

Cadet Chapel

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

Outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (ncindc/Flickr)

Washington, D.C.

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

The Rosslyn Metro escalator. (Steven Cohen/Atlas Obscura)

Arlington, Virginia

Rosslyn Metro Escalator

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee Art Museum

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

SafeHouse

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

SafeHouse

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Bunker at Cape May Point. (Andriy Boychuk)

Cape May, New Jersey

Bunker At Cape May Point

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Great Banyan Tree

Howrah, India

Great Banyan Tree

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

1513 Piri Reis Map portion

Istanbul, Turkey

Piri Reis Map at Topkapi Palace

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

Carrières de Lumières

Les Baux-de-Provence, France

Carrières de Lumières

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

Arles's Cryptoporticous

Arles, France

Arles's Cryptoporticous

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

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