Hawkshead, England
William Wordsworth's School Desk Carving
This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.
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Hawkshead, England
This small village museum contains the schoolboy scratchings of William Wordsworth.
Jacksonville, Florida
This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.
Culross, Scotland
The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.
Tacoma, Washington
This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This building played host to some of the most influential minds of the Industrial Revolution and now serves as a reminder of the influence of Northern coalfields.
Istanbul, Turkey
The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.
Gdańsk, Poland
During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.
Mandeville, Louisiana
Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.
Glasgow, Scotland
An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.
Leeds, England
The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.
Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Zermatt, Switzerland
This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.
Fort Valley, Arizona
At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.
Odense, Denmark
After attracting attention for nearly three decades while standing in front of a church, this phallic stone sculpture is now tucked away in a campus backyard.
Manchester, England
The former home of one of the U.K.’s most notable families of suffragettes is now a museum dedicated to women’s rights.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
A tiny museum dedicated to the world’s tallest true giant sits on an island he never set foot on.
Madrid, Spain
This girder was hit by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War, but nobody knew about it until 2016.
Madrid, Spain
This cuddly-looking statue symbolizes the bond between Spain and China.
Bangkok, Thailand
The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.
York, England
A shrine to one of England's female saints in what is believed to be her former home.
Anchorage, Alaska
A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances.
Bristol, England
Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.
La Seu d'Urgell, Spain
This parody of ecclesiastical cloisters features famous figures from the 20th century.
Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.