Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

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

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.