Helsinki, Finland
Pohjola Insurance Building
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
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Helsinki, Finland
This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.
Helsinki, Finland
These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.
Birmingham, England
A small alleyway with an unusual moniker.
Birmingham, England
A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.
Birmingham, England
England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.
London, England
According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
Canterbury, England
An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.
Oxford, England
This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.
Oxford, England
A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.
Oxford, England
Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.
Oxford, England
Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Whitby, England
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Whitby, England
These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.
Whitby, England
The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Hastings, England
From battleships to Roman vessels, this museum explores the depths of shipwrecks in the region.
Hastings, England
During the heyday of fishing in Hastings, there were more than 100 of these storage facilities.
Brighton, England
The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.
Glastonbury, England
Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.