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Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The largest collection of political commercials in the world.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.