This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

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

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

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

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.