Minneapolis, Minnesota
Orfield Labs Quiet Chamber
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Manchester, England
Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.
Salford, England
The longest sculpture trail in the United Kingdom.
Manchester, England
This massive memorial commemorates those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.
Manchester, England
A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.
Manchester, England
Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.
York, England
Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.
York, England
This medieval church is not only notable for its architecture, but also its connection with LGBTQ+ history.
York, England
The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
York, England
This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.
Oxford, England
The medieval legend behind this holy well was one of the inspirations behind "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Oxford, England
Over a thousand musical instruments are on display, from bagpipes and harpsichords to drums and the sinuous serpent.
Oxford, England
Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.
Oxford, England
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Oxford, England
An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.
Oxford, England
The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.
Berlin, Germany
These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.
Berlin, Germany
This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.
Schwielowsee, Germany
Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.
Potsdam, Germany
Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.
Potsdam, Germany
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Berlin, Germany
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.