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Sotheby's Sekhmet

London, England

Sotheby's Sekhmet

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

89 Jermyn Street

London, England

Floris Perfumery

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

Hendrix's bedroom.

London, England

Handel & Hendrix in London

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

Ragged School Museum

London, England

Ragged School Museum

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

Dosa with chutneys

London, England

YMCA Indian Student Hostel

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.

The transmitter mast with a cherry tree in the foreground.

London, England

Alexandra Palace Transmitter Mast

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.

Old Harkilees in Braintree Museum.

Essex, England

Old Harkilees

This wooden effigy believed to be King Charles I hung for centuries outside an inn and was mistaken for a deity.

Bronze Jane Austen in Bastingstoke

Basingstoke, England

Jane Austen Statue

The birthplace of Jane Austen commemorated the 200th anniversary of her death with a bronze statue of the beloved author.

Holy Well of St. John the Baptist

Bisley, England

Holy Well of St. John the Baptist

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

Map Table in the Battle of Britain Bunker

Uxbridge, England

Battle Of Britain Bunker

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

 The statue of James Henry Greathead with a bus passing on one side.

London, England

Statue of James Henry Greathead

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

The pylon, in front of the Canary Wharf skyline

London, England

'A Bullet From a Shooting Star'

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

Longplayer

London, England

Longplayer

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Museum of London Docklands

London, England

Museum of London Docklands

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Life in the stilt-area of Makoko

Lagos, Nigeria

Makoko

What started as makeshift fishermen's housing has grown into a massive, floating community.

Abuja Airplane House

Abuja, Nigeria

Abuja Airplane House

A labor of love and aviation in Nigeria.

Esie Stone Figurines

Esie, Nigeria

Esie Figurines

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

Osogbo, Nigeria

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

Nike Art Gallery

Lekki, Nigeria

Nike Centre for Art and Culture

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

Canopy walkway at Lekki Conservation Center.

Lekki, Nigeria

Lekki Conservation Center

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

The Flodden Wall at Greyfriars Kirkyard.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Flodden Wall

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage

Edinburgh, Scotland

Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage

A museum dedicated to firefighting in a city that was crucial to the modern history of the profession.

The Lodge of Edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Lodge of Edinburgh

Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

Edinburgh's oldest purpose built visitor attraction, The Camera Obscura on the Royal Mile

Edinburgh, Scotland

Camera Obscura & World of Illusions

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

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