St Helier, Jersey
Le Crapaud
A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.
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St Helier, Jersey
A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cat art as far as the eye can see.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.
Berlin, Germany
Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Copenhagen, Denmark
The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.
London, England
This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Millport, Scotland
A bizarre stone beast lurks on the beach of a popular tourist island.
Paisley, Scotland
A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.
Glasgow, Scotland
An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.
Meyrin, Switzerland
The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.
Leuk, Switzerland
A symbol of friendship between the mountainous regions of Switzerland and Bhutan.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Meyrin, Switzerland
CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.
Geneva, Switzerland
Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.
Geneva, Switzerland
One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.
Geneva, Switzerland
A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.