A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

A community of artists and entrepreneurs seeks a simpler life on London's waterways.

The Columbia Road Flower Market is now open every Sunday, rain or shine.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

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

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

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

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

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.