Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

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

Giant naked man on a hillside.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.