The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.