One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

The largest collection of handbags in the world, the oldest of which were used to carry Bibles, primarily by men.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

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

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.