A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

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

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

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

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

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

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The world's oldest model village.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world