At just 51 feet and 10 inches long, it's the shortest street in England.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

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

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

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

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

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

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.