Rare and strange weather predictors, from mercury barometers to leech prognosticators.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

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

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

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

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.