Places Notlikeparis Wants to Go

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

One of the best-preserved, yet least visited stone circle sites in Cumbria.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.