London, England
West Norwood Cemetery
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
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London, England
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
London, England
A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Montpellier, France
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
Pont-Saint-Esprit, France
A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?
Tarascon, France
Sculpture of a legendary French dragon.
Arles, France
A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.