Littledean, England
Littledean Jail and Museum of Crime
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
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Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Tewkesbury, England
An English cenotaph honoring an American feminist icon.
Minsterworth, England
This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.
Cheltenham, England
Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.
Painswick, England
Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.
Gloucester, England
Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Saint-Ouen, France
An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.
Saint-Ouen, France
Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.
Saint-Denis, France
This hidden workshop is filled with molds of France's most iconic sculptures.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.
Paris, France
The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.
Paris, France
How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.
London, England
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
London, England
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.