Peaugres, France
Labyrinthe des Dragons
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
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Peaugres, France
One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.
Paris, France
A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Paris, France
The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.
Naples, Italy
The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.
London, England
This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.
London, England
A place of remembrance for the Prime Minister that met a violent end.
London, England
This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.
London, England
Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.
London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.
London, England
The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.
London, England
A collection of machines designed to break things for science.
London, England
This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.
London, England
The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.
London, England
Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.
London, England
Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.
London, England
The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.
London, England
An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."