This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

Every July, men dressed as giant crows dance around a scarecrow who comes to life.

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

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St. John's Precinct and Market.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

The oldest working Brewery in Britain.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

A former fortified tower now houses a collection of classic communications equipment.