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Heritage plaque marking home of Alfred Hitchcock.

London, England

Alfred Hitchcock's London Flat

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

The Tomb of Hannah Courtoy

London, England

Tomb Of Hannah Courtoy

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Bee

Manchester, England

The Manchester Bee

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

The Bard is represented on the sign.

Manchester, England

The Shakespeare

This haunted 17th-century pub was moved to a new city when it was already almost 300 years old.

The Tree of Remembrance with pigeons roosting in it.

Manchester, England

Tree of Remembrance

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

Museum exterior

Tring, England

Natural History Museum at Tring

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

Aldbury Stocks and Whipping Post

Aldbury, England

Aldbury Stocks and Whipping Post

A relic of medieval punishment marks the center of this quintessential English village.

The taxidermy "puma-pard."

Tring, England

Tring Natural History Museum Hybrid Animals

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

The Sockman

Loughborough, England

'The Sockman'

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.

Zelionyj Bazaar

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Zelionyj Bazaar

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

Ascension Cathedral

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Ascension Cathedral

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

The statue of Panfilov's 28 Guardsmen.

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Statue of Panfilov's 28 Guardsmen

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

The Beatles on Green Hill

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Beatles Statue of Almaty

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

Close up photo of some of the ‘Cannonballs’

Southampton, England

Southampton Wall Cannonballs

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

Some names were clear as day, Eddie Meyer engraved the date, name and location

Southampton, England

The D-Day Wall

This little-known wall in Southampton stands as one of the most unique and personal monuments to D-Day.

A parking lot on top of the medieval walls.

Southampton, England

Southampton Walls

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

Historischer Kunstbunker

Nuremberg, Germany

Historischer Kunstbunker

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Part of the museum exhibition showing the chairs in which some of the Nazi war criminals sat

Nuremberg, Germany

Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse (Nuremberg Trials Memorial)

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Albrecht Dürer's Grave

Nuremberg, Germany

Albrecht Dürer's Grave

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

Nuremberg Toy Museum

Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg Toy Museum

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

The Kongresshalle.

Nuremberg, Germany

The Kongresshalle, Nuremberg

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Der Hase

Nuremberg, Germany

'Der Hase'

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

The Ochsenportal

Nuremberg, Germany

Ochsenportal

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

Henkerhaus

Nuremberg, Germany

Henkerhaus

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

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