This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

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

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.