The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.