This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

This giant wire frame man sculpture is crouched in contemplation.

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This 11th-century castle sits so low you can't see it behind the surrounding buildings.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

The largest 19th century panorama in the world still in-situ.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

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

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

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

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

The oldest public library in Ireland.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.