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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, France

Père Lachaise Cemetery

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Rocky Valley Labyrinths

Trethevy, England

Rocky Valley Labyrinths

These mysterious mazes carved on the rock may be up to 4,000 years old.

Figures in the Korean Gardens

Berlin, Germany

Gärten der Welt (Gardens of the World)

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Bella the Beithir

Glasgow, Scotland

Bella the Beithir

A mythological Celtic beast built with thousands of colorful tiles stands guard over a historic canal junction.

King Arthur's Cave

Whitchurch, England

King Arthur's Cave

The site of an early Arthurian battle and the dwelling-place of prehistoric people and (possibly) an ancient race of giants.

Temnodontosaurus platyodon skull at the Lyme Regis Museum.

Lyme Regis, England

Lyme Regis Museum

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

Coffin bench.

Whitby, England

199 Steps Coffin Benches

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Resurrectionist.

Stirling, Scotland

Grave Robbing Headstone

A grave marker depicting a body snatching tableau on a 19th-century tombstone.

Sotheby's Sekhmet

London, England

Sotheby's Sekhmet

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

Around the church yard.

Glasgow, Scotland

Unmarked Grave of Pierre Emile L'Angelier

The final resting place of a poisoned lover whose death was at the center of one of Glasgow's most sensational murder trials.

Silent Pool

Albury, England

Silent Pool

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

A pair of parakeets in a tree, London.

London, England

London's Rose-Ringed Parakeets

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

The Fairy Glen

Rosemarkie, Scotland

The Fairy Glen - Rosemarkie

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

Pitt Rivers Museum

Oxford, England

Pitt Rivers Museum

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The Treehouse Sanctuary | Attic | San Phra Phum (The House of the Spirits) | 1965 | Tonlé Sap, Cambodia

Great Dunmow, England

Talliston House & Gardens

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Mortsafe at Greyfriars Cemetery

Edinburgh, Scotland

Greyfriars Cemetery Mortsafes

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Doon Hill and Fairy Knowe.

Aberfoyle, Scotland

Doon Hill and Fairy Knowe

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

A collection of 8 coffins with their lids and carved figures, found in a rocky niche on the north-eastern slopes of Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, in June 1836. © National Museums Scotland (used with permission)

Edinburgh, Scotland

Burke & Hare Murder Dolls

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Nunhead Cemetery

London, England

Nunhead Cemetery

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

The fountain.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Witches' Well

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Cheddar gorge and caves.

Cheddar, England

The Cheddar Man and Cannibals Museum

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Roads converge at Jay's Grave (Geograph)

Newton Abbot, England

Jay's Grave

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

Ruined interior of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Seymour House.

Totnes, England

Berry Pomeroy Castle

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

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