A stargazing sculpture made from the ruins of an iconic telescope.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

This is one really big nut.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

London's largest outsider art museum.

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

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.