This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

This sculpture marks the spot where one of the greatest Roman rulers was proclaimed emperor.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

This pub was 238 years old when it decided to revamp its image: It started serving Thai food.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

A theatre built to house the rowdy Oxford graduation ceremonies became the stage for a debate about God's existence.

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

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."