An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

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

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This statue of the great Argentinian car driver is located near a famous curve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A trove of ridiculously valuable prints and manuscripts under one roof.