The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

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