The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.