London, England
Nobrow Comics
A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.
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London, England
A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
London, England
Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
Bath, England
Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.
London, England
London's Victorian Tower of Babel.
London, England
This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.
Hereford, England
The largest known medieval map of the world.
Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Stanford, California
An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.
Cambridge, England
An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
New Haven, Connecticut
An extra-wide chair built to accommodate the former president's big behind.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Grantham, England
One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.
London, England
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
London, England
A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Bradford, England
A museum devoted to the science of color.
Leeds, England
The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.
London, England
This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.
Cody, Wyoming
One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.
Litchfield, California
Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.