Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The middle finger of modernity.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The Egyptian-inspired last resting place of Lord Kilmorey.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

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

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.

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

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.