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The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

An unexpected treasure trove of military oddities, Turkish interior design, and North Korean art.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

Roman-style pizza al taglio arrives here with magnificent, crackly crust.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

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

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

A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.

Earthworks of a Bronze Age settlement and ceremonial ring in Essex

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.