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This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

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.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

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

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

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

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

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

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.