Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.