19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

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

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.