Paris, France
Musée National de la Marine
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
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Paris, France
Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.
Paris, France
Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.
London, England
The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.
London, England
The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.
London, England
A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.
London, England
Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.
London, England
High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.
London, England
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.