Glasgow, Scotland
Britannia Panopticon Music Hall
The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.
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Glasgow, Scotland
The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Manchester, England
A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.
Manchester, England
This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.
Manchester, England
Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.
Manchester, England
These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.
London, England
This unassuming building produced some of the world's most famous bells.
London, England
A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.
London, England
"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
London, England
Children's hospital in London that operates on royalties received from Peter Pan, which J.M. Barrie signed over in 1929.
London, England
A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.
London, England
A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.
London, England
A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.
London, England
Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
England
A historic house left in "dramatic still life."
London, England
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
Brooklyn, New York
This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.
New York, New York
This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.
New York, New York
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
New York, New York
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
New York, New York
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.