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

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

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

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.