Places microvroni Wants to Go

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.