English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

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

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

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

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

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

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.