Paris, France
Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle
This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.
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Paris, France
This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.
Paris, France
This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.
Paris, France
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
Paris, France
This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.
Dublin, Ireland
The oldest public library in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Brighton, England
Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.
Canterbury, England
One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.
Canterbury, England
This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
Liverpool, England
The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.
Liverpool, England
Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.
Liverpool, England
The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Liverpool, England
The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.
London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
London, England
The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.
London, England
A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.
London, England
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.