Witcham, England
World Pea Shooting Championship
The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.
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Witcham, England
The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.
Haxey, England
One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.
Stoke Heath, England
A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.
Kyiv, Ukraine
The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.
Heysham, England
A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.
West Stockwith, England
In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.
Lincoln, England
The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.
Whitehaven, England
Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.
Cromford, England
The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”
Sutton-in-Ashfield, England
The English town of Mansfield likely got its name from this enigmatic breast-shaped mound rising abruptly from the earth.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.
Tartu, Estonia
A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.
Sheffield, England
A fitting tribute to a beloved local boxing coach that's produced four world champions.
Nottingham, England
The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
North Macedonia
An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.
Camelford, England
A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.
Elie, Scotland
The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.
London, England
Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.
London, England
The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.
Meriden, England
The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.