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

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The middle finger of modernity.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."