Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A hidden path at the National Theatre lets you look behind the scenes of the latest productions.

A haunting painting meant to capture the calamity of World War I.

The influential philosopher's old residence is commemorated in a small English town.

This strangely dressed taxidermy creature has a heartbreaking story.

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.

A unique journey back in time to an early 20th-century fairground.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

Its walls are adorned with exquisite murals of the natural world, transforming it into an ecologist’s Sistine Chapel.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

This delightful hidden farm is home to Victorian ruins and a wonderful menagerie of animals.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

Cycle the solar system—from the sun to Pluto—right here on earth.

This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.