London, England
Mansion House Square
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
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London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.
London, England
Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Dover, England
One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.
Paris, France
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Florence, Italy
The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.
Florence, Italy
In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.
Rome, Italy
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
Rome, Italy
An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.
Rome, Italy
This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.
Rome, Italy
Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.
Vatican City
Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.
Rome, Italy
A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.
Rome, Italy
A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.