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A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.

Beautiful Victorian mansion on Cardiff's outskirts was once the family home of a South Wales coal mining dynasty.

A station imagined at the speed of light, where familiar fixtures slip out of place.

An egg dancing on water as a sign of renewal

Princess Kristina played a pivotal role in fostering diplomatic ties between two kingdoms, Norway and Spain.

This 12th-century gatehouse has survived England’s many religious upheavals

These stairs, seemingly disappearing into a wall, once tempted some students into petty crime

One of Bristol's most elusive public artworks

This kaleidoscopic structure is perhaps Bristol’s most unusual temple

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

This plaque commemorates the end of a symbolic battle waged by local residents against a project to demolish a large number of homes. And although it only lasted 2 and a half months, it still has major repercussions today

Sitting in a quiet field just west of Cardiff is a well-preserved megalithic burial chamber, topped with a 40-ton capstone

Limestone caves in the side of a hill associated with legends and the supernatural

The longest surviving wooden trackway complex in Europe dates back to Iron Age Ireland

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

The bell of HMS Hood is rung every Sunday at this ship-themed church.

A medieval palace holding a millennium of the Crown of Aragon's records

A rather unusual, if not whimsical, art installation that would make Alfred Hitchcock proud