This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

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

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.