Edinburgh, Scotland
Burke & Hare Murder Dolls
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.
London, England
This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Stockholm, Sweden
Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.
Stockholm, Sweden
Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.
Stockholm, Sweden
Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.
Sweden
A competition inspired by Stephen King's psychological horror novel "The Long Walk."
Stockholm, Sweden
"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."
Älvkarleby S, Sweden
Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.
Hammarland, Finland
A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.
Uppsala, Sweden
The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.