This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

An unassuming London park is actually a pilgrimage site for modern clowns.

These marks in Myddelton Passage aren't your run-of-the-mill vandalism, and they weren't made by your typical vandal.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Berlin's old airport.