Venice, Italy
Peggy Guggenheim's Grave
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
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Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Alberobello, Italy
Southern Italy's spinning top village.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Milan, Italy
Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.
London, England
A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.
London, England
The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.
London, England
"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
London, England
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
London, England
A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.
London, England
A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.
London, England
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
London, England
The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.