Places yakyakyak Wants to Go

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

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.

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

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A Nile crocodile, a historic symbol of apothecaries, is among the fascinating collection.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

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

The canine-themed book collection claims to be Europe's largest dog library.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

A showcase of canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and function.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.