This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

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

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

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

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.