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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

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

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

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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