With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.