This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.