London, England
Odeon Covent Garden
Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.
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London, England
Formerly known as Saville Theatre, this mid-20th-century entertainment hub includes an ornate frieze.
London, England
This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.
London, England
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.
London, England
An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.
London, England
Catacombs turned marketplace.
London, England
Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
Blackpool, England
See reconstructed Spitfires and other World War II-era planes in a hangar originally used by the Royal Air Force.
London, England
This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Oslo, Norway
A bold and controversial statue of a Christmas icon, blending adult undertones with playful humor, stands year-round in a traffic circle.
Ephrata, Washington
An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.
North Bonneville, Washington
Boats and fish both find their way through this massive hydroelectric structure.
Brooklyn, New York
The remnants of what was once the largest film studio on the East Coast are hiding in plain sight.
London, England
This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.
Athens, Greece
Catch raucous live performances of traditional tunes at this old-school taverna.
Athens, Greece
The Lobotesis family has been baking some of the best savory pies in Athens since 1910.
Benidorm, Spain
This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed
Manchester, England
A small statue shaped like the grill of a Rolls-Royce marks the suburban location where the company’s first automobiles were manufactured.
Ibiza, Spain
An unexpected homage to 90s celebrities hidden in a corner of Ibiza.
Donora, Pennsylvania
A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.
Birmingham, England
A small alleyway with an unusual moniker.