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Village sign detail, Witcham.

Witcham, England

World Pea Shooting Championship

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

Smoking the Fool, the prelude to the contest.

Haxey, England

The Haxey Hood

One of England's oldest ongoing games is basically a town-wide scrummage that aims to push a leather tube into a local pub.

The 15th Century Merchants house that started it all.

Stoke Heath, England

The Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise's sarcophagus

Kyiv, Ukraine

Sarcophagus of Prince Yaroslav the Wise

The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.

'Poet Philosopher & Failure' Gravestone

Heysham, England

'Poet Philosopher & Failure' Gravestone

A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.

The Trent Aegir tidal bore.

West Stockwith, England

The Trent Aegir

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

The memorial

Lincoln, England

Lincoln Tank Memorial

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

Fairy Rock behind Saltom Pit

Whitehaven, England

Fairy Rock

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

water sources

Cromford, England

Cromford Mill

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

The fountain.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Witches' Well

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The building's King Street side, as viewed from Laura Place.

Aberystwyth, Wales

University of Aberystwyth Old College

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Hamilton Hill as viewed from Kings Mill Reservoir.

Sutton-in-Ashfield, England

Hamilton Hill

The English town of Mansfield likely got its name from this enigmatic breast-shaped mound rising abruptly from the earth.

The entrance to the museum.

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Museum of Sexual Cultures of the World

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

The Tartu Old Observatory

Tartu, Estonia

The Struve Geodetic Arc

A historic scientific breakthrough that crosses nine borders.

Two seats in the form of boxing gloves with Brendan's advice between.

Sheffield, England

Brendan's Glove Garden

A fitting tribute to a beloved local boxing coach that's produced four world champions.

The west facade of the abbey, which dates to the 13th century.

Nottingham, England

Newstead Abbey

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The quaint and well-preserved Goodwin's Court.

London, England

Goodwin's Court

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Exterior frontal view of one of the five buildings

North Macedonia

Little Pioneers Youth Camp

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

The Homomonument

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Homomonument

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

King Arthur's Stone.

Camelford, England

King Arthur's Stone

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

The chain.

Elie, Scotland

Elie Chain Walk

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

Two Princes Staircase in the White Tower.

London, England

Two Princes Staircase

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Faraday's lab.

London, England

Michael Faraday's Laboratory

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

British cycling troops during the Battle of the Somme.

Meriden, England

National Cyclists Memorial

The obelisk honors the cyclist troops who were killed during World War I.

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