Oxford, England
Oxford Museum of Natural History
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
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Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Barnard Castle, England
A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.
Grasmere, England
This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
Bakewell, England
Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.
Nantwich, England
Each year a new straw behemoth is born.
Waterloo, England
A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.
Trevor, Wales
The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.
Krakow, Poland
Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.
Cascais, Portugal
A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.
Lisbon, Portugal
Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.
Lisbon, Portugal
This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Lahore, Pakistan
A 17th-century mosque that was used for war more than worship.
Wah, Pakistan
A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.
Lahore, Pakistan
These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.
Chobe, Botswana
There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.
Los Angeles, California
There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."