A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The beautiful non-repeating pattern honors the Oxford professor who discovered it.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A student driver's nightmare.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

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