Imagine walking into a hotel lobby after a long trip, only to be greeted not by a person, but by a talking dinosaur in a bellboy uniform. Sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie? Well, it's real — and it's in Japan.

Welcome to Henn-na Hotel, famously known as “The Weird Hotel”, where robots run the show. From check-in to luggage assistance, the staff are robots — and that’s not even the weirdest part.

Nestled on a quiet street in Bloomsbury, London, far from the tourist crowds of the Thames and Westminster, there’s a modest Georgian townhouse with black railings, white-framed windows, and red brick walls. It doesn’t shout for attention—but it doesn’t need to. This is the Charles Dickens Museum, the former home of one of England’s greatest storytellers, where fiction met reality and a literary universe was born.