Alcantarilha, Portugal
Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones)
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
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Alcantarilha, Portugal
This unassuming chapel in Portugal plays host to a ghoulish collection of bones.
Alcobaça, Portugal
The corpse bride of Portugal.
Lisbon, Portugal
This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.
Wallyford, Scotland
This former school is now abandoned and a canvas for graffiti artists.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Whittingham, England
This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.
Stannington, England
St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.
Somerset, England
The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Sheffield, England
This house was home to a succession of park keepers for more than 90 years, but in all that time, it never had a toilet.
London, England
3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.
London, England
The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.
London, England
The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.
London, England
Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.
London, England
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
London, England
These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.
London, England
Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.
London, England
It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.
London, England
This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.
London, England
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
London, England
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
London, England
The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.