The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

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

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A giant pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, and an amazing vacation rental option.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.