Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

London's old-school healing garden.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

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

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.