Places raventeddybear Wants to Go

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

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

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.