Mansfield, England
Saint Edwin's Chapel Cross
This lonely metal cross may hint at the true location of a medieval showdown between Christian and Pagan kingdoms.
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Mansfield, England
This lonely metal cross may hint at the true location of a medieval showdown between Christian and Pagan kingdoms.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.
Nottingham, England
When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.
Nottingham, England
This unchanged Victorian park is rumored to have been the inspiration behind Peter Pan's Neverland.
Kuopio, Finland
A stick-sprouting statue watching a duo of disembodied dancing deities.
Poundbury, England
Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
Sibthorpe, England
This 600-year-old tower was built as a comfy residence for cherished pigeons.
Peterborough, England
Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.
Ludlow, England
Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.
Concepción, Chile
The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.
Peterborough, England
A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.
Southampton, England
A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.
Lota, Chile
The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.
Southampton, England
The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.
Valdivia, Chile
A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.
Nottingham, England
A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.
Stapleford, England
Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.
Cambridge, England
A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.
Nottingham, England
When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.
Valdivia, Chile
A 300-foot-long Cold War submarine floats in a Chilean River as a maritime museum.
Nottingham, England
This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.
Ponta do Pargo, Portugal
Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.