The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.

Nestled within a German forest is an intriguing, growing rock.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.