Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

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

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

The largest clown school in Britain offering accredited degrees.

An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

This religious museum resides in a church crypt next to the founder's house.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.