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Woolpit, England

Woolpit Village Sign

A rather creepy sign alludes to the bizarre and famous history of the "green children of Woolpit"

A huge Parana pine tree. This is a critically endangered species of tree native to South-Eastern Brazil.

São Paulo, Brazil

Parque Estadual Cantareira

One of the world's largest urban rainforests with a spectacular panorama of Sao Paulo city and monkeys awaits visitors

Monumento al Mestizaje

Mexico City, Mexico

Monumento al Mestizaje

A haunting monument to the origins of Mexico's cultural origins

A photograph of Knautschke in life taken in 1952

Berlin, Germany

Knautschke

A war-scarred hippo calf nursed from the ruins into a symbol of Berlin resilience

A strange preserved marine beast at the museum

Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Historia Natural y Cultura Ambiental

Mexico City's natural history museum has seen better days but still holds some enchanting treasures within its kitsch walls

The Herxheim Death Ritual Skeletons

Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany

The Herxheim Death Ritual Skeletons

Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism

La Regenta

Oviedo, Spain

La Regenta

A statue honoring the tragic heroine of a Spanish literary masterpiece.

The famous bison painting of Font de Gaume

Les Eyzies, France

Grotte de Font-de-Gaum

Among Europe’s most spectacular Ice Age painted caves still accessible today.

German trench with soldiers preparing a gas attack.

Albert, France

Somme 1916 Museum

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

Lagoa Santa Man.

Lapinha, Brazil

Lagoa Santa Man

The skeletal remains of an ancient human were found with the bones of giant ground sloths.

Teatro de los Insurgentes

Mexico City, Mexico

Teatro de los Insurgentes

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens

Temple Ewell, England

Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens

Two beautiful Victorian-era parks replete with ornamental waterfalls and lakes.

The central cieling mural

Guadalajara, Mexico

Hospicio Cabañas

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

A muriqui mother and infant

Caratinga, Brazil

The Muriquis of Feliciano Miguel Abdala Reserve

A preserved section of the Atlantic Forest is an important habitat for these critically endangered monkeys.

West Gate Tower

Canterbury, England

West Gate Tower Museum

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

Closeup of the sculpture

Munich, Germany

Wolfsbrunnen

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Sculpture of Claus Von Stauffenberg in the courtyard where he was executed

Berlin, Germany

German Resistance Memorial Center

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

A golden lion tamarin at Pouca das Antas

Silva Jardim, Brazil

The Golden Lion Tamarins of Poço das Antas

These small, spectacular monkeys are making a comeback after deforestation destroyed much of their rainforest habitat.

Part of the museum exhibition showing the chairs in which some of the Nazi war criminals sat

Nuremberg, Germany

Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse (Nuremberg Trials Memorial)

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

The Ochsenportal

Nuremberg, Germany

Ochsenportal

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

The lantern of Guy Fawkes

Oxford, England

The Lantern of Guy Fawkes

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

Sarcophagus

Barcelona, Spain

Museu Egipci de Barcelona (Egyptian Museum of Barcelona)

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

Statue of King Æthelberht

Kent, England

Queen Bertha and King Æthelberht

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

Southmere lake was chosen by director Stanley Kubrick due to its brutalist architecture

London, England

Southmere Lake

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

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