New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
Salem, Massachusetts
The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Honolulu, Hawaii
The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Honolulu, Hawaii
What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.
London, England
This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.
London, England
A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.
Alnwick, England
This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.
London, England
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
London, England
The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.
London, England
Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
London, England
A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Windhoek, Namibia
Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.