A museum filled with tiny, adorable versions of the mighty Royal Danish Navy.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.