Imagine walking into a building that looks like a futuristic crystal crashing into a historic mansion—and finding yourself face-to-face with a towering dinosaur skeleton. Welcome to the Royal Ontario Museum (or just ROM, if you're a local), one of Canada’s most mind-blowing treasure chests of history, culture, and science.

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.