London, England
The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
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London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Flatey, Iceland
Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.
Hellissandur, Iceland
Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."
Iceland
The final resting place of the controversial chess champion.
Ísafjörður, Iceland
Discover the magic in the mundane in Iceland's Museum of Everyday Life.
Iceland
A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.