London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
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London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.
Athens, Greece
The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.
Athens, Greece
The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Athens, Greece
A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.
Mikonos, Greece
Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Washington, D.C.
A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.
Washington, D.C.
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
Washington, D.C.
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
Tintagel, England
It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.
Haarlem, Netherlands
This towering church is home to a world-famous organ and a treasure trove of medieval art.
London, England
The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.
London, England
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
London, England
A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.
London, England
Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.