An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

Thanks to both terrific preservation and historic vandalism this ancient site is known as the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney."

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.