Edinburgh, Scotland
Cafe Royal
Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.
Peterborough, England
A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.
Peterborough, England
Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Holywood, Scotland
A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.
Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Budapest, Hungary
Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.
Glasgow, Scotland
The community pools that the community refused to give up on.
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.
Paris, France
The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.
Ticknall, England
This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.
Chillingham, England
This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.
Sandwick, Scotland
Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.
Glasgow, Scotland
This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Budapest, Hungary
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
London, England
Traveling collection of amazing automata.
Budapest, Hungary
A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.
London, England
The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.