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

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.