An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

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

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

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

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

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

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.