This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A historic manor with a priest hole you can stand up in, the last surviving vestments from a dissolved abbey, and centuries of art on display.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

For more than half a century, an enormous feline has watched over this London neighborhood.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.