This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

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

This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.