A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

A curious collection of miniatures in a quiet corner of the Chicago Children's Museum.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

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

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.