Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.

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

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

The shop where the girl who inspired the beloved character once bought sweets is now a book-themed commercial curiosity.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.