Finglesham, England
The Ham Sandwich Sign
A beautiful Kentish country intersection hosts a tasty little photo spot.
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Finglesham, England
A beautiful Kentish country intersection hosts a tasty little photo spot.
Birchington-on-Sea, England
A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.
Birchington-on-Sea, England
An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.
Margate, England
Overlooking the seaside town of Margate stands a tribute to an artist's lover.
Margate, England
Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
West Malling, England
A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.
Maidstone, England
This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.
Dungeness, England
An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.
Greatstone, England
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.
Town End, England
A collection of early 19th century trams set in a reconstructed period village.
Crich, England
This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.
Madeley, England
This tranquil churchyard in the heart of England’s mining country whispers tales of both triumph and tragedy.
Ironbridge, England
This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Brownhills, England
A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.
Herne Bay, England
Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
Margate, England
Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Helsinki, Finland
Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.
Helsinki, Finland
A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.
Glasgow, Scotland
This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.