Hastings, England
Marine Court
This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.
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Hastings, England
This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.
Hastings, England
This tiny triangular cottage is one of a kind in England, and has housed everything from a watchmaker's studio to coffin storage.
Hastings, England
During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.
Hastings, England
From battleships to Roman vessels, this museum explores the depths of shipwrecks in the region.
Folkestone, England
One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.
Folkestone, England
A winding cave grotto walkway built to provide employment for veterans after World War I.
Folkestone, England
These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.
Bury Saint Edmunds, England
The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.
Thetford, England
A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.
Lynford, England
A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.
Thetford, England
This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.
Thetford, England
A bronze sculpture of last Sikh maharaja of the Punjab, outside the English estate where he once lived.
Great Yarmouth, England
These grandstands are among the oldest continuously used stands in the world.
Brno, Czechia
A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.
Prague, Czechia
The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.
Prague, Czechia
A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.
Prague, Czechia
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Prague, Czechia
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
Wrocław, Poland
A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.
Wrocław, Poland
In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.
Wrocław, Poland
The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.
Wrocław, Poland
A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.