A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

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

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.