The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

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

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

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

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

The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

An ancient woodland that inspired a young J.R.R. Tolkien.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.