London, England
The King's Cross Ice Well
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
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London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
London, England
The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.
London, England
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
London, England
The remains of the debtor’s prison that shaped Charles Dickens’ life and writing.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Itaguaí, Brazil
An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.
Ardmore, South Dakota
Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.
Hatteras, North Carolina
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
Pensacola, Florida
A striking lighthouse with views of the Gulf of Mexico and of a military air show.
Pensacola, Florida
This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Ashburn, Virginia
The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.