A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

The statue of a legendary giant who carried Christ and shouldered the world's sins.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Home of one of history's most famous cartoonists just as he left it.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.