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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

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

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

The world's largest single-aperture telescope resides in the Canary Islands.

Inside a former smuggler's cave, an artificial waterfall and light show.