For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.

A hidden plaque is the only reminder of the lost palace where two storied English kings were born.

The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

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

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

The historic site where Queen Elizabeth I once gave a searing speech.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.