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Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A faded reminder of what was once a common sight in London during the Blitz.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

This verdant, tree-lined Reykjavik graveyard is both enchanting and eerie.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.