Sheffield, England
Burton Street School
It's known as the "Full Monty school" thanks to its role in the beloved British comedy film.
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Sheffield, England
It's known as the "Full Monty school" thanks to its role in the beloved British comedy film.
Athens, Greece
There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.
Montclair, New Jersey
Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Athens, Greece
The only surviving choragic monument is a trophy awarded in 334 BC for the winning dramatic chorus.
Athens, Greece
A Byzantine church containing the holy remnants of three saints sits atop the site of an ancient temple.
Skagway, Alaska
The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.
Athens, Greece
An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.
Istanbul, Turkey
Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.
Cardiff, Wales
The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.
Athens, Greece
The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.
Brooklyn, New York
A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.
Brooklyn, New York
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.
Kilkenny, Ireland
These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
Rome, Italy
Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
London, England
A quiet, semi-secret square with statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, and a conscientious objectors stone.
Burgos, Spain
The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.
Athens, Greece
A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.
Rome, Italy
The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.
Wicklow, Ireland
Not actually a shop, but one fan's passionate show of support for a rival county's Gaelic football team.
Nottingham, England
Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.
Sheffield, England
Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.