Belfast, Northern Ireland
Launch Site of the Titanic
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
King's Lynn, England
This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
Bristol, England
This pedestrian footbridge honors Pero Jones, an enslaved African who lived in Bristol.
Bristol, England
The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."
Bristol, England
17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.
Bristol, England
This church is said to have connections to the Knights Templars.
Tisbury, England
Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Buckfastleigh, England
This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.
Widecombe in the Moor, England
This painted wooden sculpture depicts the characters of a popular Devon folk song.
Venice, Italy
According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.
Venice, Italy
A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.
Venice, Italy
Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Venice, Italy
Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.
Bath, England
This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."
Bradford-on-Avon, England
This bridge later moonlighted as a local jail.
Bradford-on-Avon, England
One of the largest medieval barns in England and architecturally one of the finest.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Charmouth, England
Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.
Cricket Saint Thomas, England
The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.