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The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Mathewsons Auctions is the location for the popular British TV reality show, Bangers and Cash

This 11th-century Cistercian abbey was once seized by Henry VIII.

An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The fossilized trunk of a tree that grew around 320 million years ago.

A surreal paleontological sculpture garden pays homage to a fading industry.

Turrets, ramparts and towers, this Teesside castle has them all, but it's not all as it seems.

The birthplace of the ferocious William the Conqueror, this castle is awash in medieval history.

This 12th century, partially destroyed, abbey has had several owners and was seized during the French Revolution.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.