At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

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

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A student driver's nightmare.