Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

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

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

An elaborately decorated house sits on an otherwise quiet street.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A glimpse into the last days of a once-booming past fishing industry.