Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

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

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

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