This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Beachcombers have been populating this museum with artifacts ranging from prehistoric to barely historic since the 1930's.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

The unusual private collection of modern-day renaissance man George Musgrave.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

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

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

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

Don't worry, they don't use antique scissors.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

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

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.