Canterbury, England
The Great Cloister and Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
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Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Bergen, Norway
The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.
Isle of Iona, Scotland
A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Vancouver, British Columbia
A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.
Barcelona, Spain
Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.
Manchester, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This stunning concert hall has become a symbol of Iceland's national recovery.
Leuven, Belgium
A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.
London, England
This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
London, England
This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
Palma, Spain
A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.
Sintra, Portugal
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
Marseille, France
This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Thingvellir, Iceland
The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.
London, England
This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.
London, England
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.