A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

London's old-school healing garden.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

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

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.