An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The site of London's first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

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

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

A rare specimen of the ancient piggy bank of Java resides in one of the unassuming corners of the Ashmolean.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

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

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

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

Inside this curiosity shop, visitors can peruse the clown collection or purchase a molar from the mouth of Bigfoot.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

Ever-growing collection of devils in art.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.