Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

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

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

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

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.