Places Edited by SEANETTA ALLSASS

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

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

London's old-school healing garden.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Created by one of England's most prolific labyrinth designers, inspired by Bath city history.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.