Lodi, Italy
Museo Paolo Gorini
A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.
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Lodi, Italy
A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.
London, England
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Ercolano, Italy
Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.
Oxford, England
J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Tokyo, Japan
Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can âdieâ and have their own mock funeral.
Okinawa, Japan
A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.
Nagasaki, Japan
The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.
Tokyo, Japan
A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.
HokkaidÅ, Japan
This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
Chislehurst, England
Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
London, England
Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.
London, England
Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.