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A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A bridge that dates back to the 12th century is said to have made the devil very angry.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.

In Warrington’s Golden Square, it's always tea time.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

A rare example of this century-old British tank stands near the center of town in Ashford.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

Once a 19th-century refuge for immigrants, this pub has hosted performances by Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

This ancient stone bridge dates back to the early Middle Ages.

A miniature of a lighthouse acts as a beacon for what transpires inside this location.

A rare survivor from the age of plagues.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.