This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

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

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.