The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

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

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.