Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

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

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

London's old-school healing garden.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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