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Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.