A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

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

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

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

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

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

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

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.