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Stow-on-the-Wold, England

Historic Village Stocks

A historical hangover from the time of public humiliation as a state punishment
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London, England

The Tower of All Hallows Staining

A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers
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Bury St Edmunds, England

The Abbey Gate

The grand 14th-century gateway to the lost abbey of St Edmund
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Bury St Edmunds, England

Bury St Edmunds Charnel House

A rare medieval bone-house, surrounded by remarkable memorial stones
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Gloucester, England

Gloucester Greyfriars

The elegant ruined arches of a Franciscan friary in central Gloucester
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Mumbai, India

Pancham Puriwala

This legendary restaurant in the heart of Mumbai has been in existence since around 1848
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Pune, India

Badshahi Boarding House

This historic restaurant serves traditional, home-style meals in a vintage setting
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Pune, India

St. Paul's Church

This 19th-century church is one of the oldest churches in Pune
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Pune, India

Tarkeshwar Mahadev Temple

An ancient hilltop cave temple of Lord Shiva offers breathtaking views of the city
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Winchester, England

Medieval Encaustic Tiles

Intricate 14th-century floor tiles hidden underfoot in Winchester Cathedral
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Gloucester, England

The House of the Tailor of Gloucester

The Gloucester shop said to have inspired Beatrix Potter's Tailor
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Dusseldorf, Germany

Düsseldorf Central Station’s Model Railway

A coin-operated model railway tucked inside a busy train station
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Eyam, England

Eyam Boundary Stone

Where a plague-quarantined village left vinegar-soaked coins for supplies
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St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument

A bronze tribute to the everyday activists of St. Augustine's civil rights struggle
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Milnathort, Scotland

Burleigh Castle

A ruined Scottish tower house with a laird-turned-fugitive's legend
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Lincoln, England

Roman Upper South Gate

Fragments of a Roman city gate embedded in a building on Lincoln's Steep Hill
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Annual Reminder Marker

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July
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Pozo Negro, Spain

Poblado de la Atalayita (Village of Atalayita)

Stone dwellings of the Mahos, Fuerteventura's original inhabitants
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