A cheeky tribute to a comedy legend.

This sculpture celebrates a boules tournament and the link between Leeds and its twin city Lille.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

A 10-meter totem pole stands as a tribute to Seattle’s sister city of Bergen, Norway.

Once silenced for being off-key, this bell has found a new voice as an interactive public artwork.

The tomb of a deposed king that drew medieval pilgrims to Gloucester

England's “third-oldest college” has not graduated a single student in over 400 years.

London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

From a distance it looks like a real castle, but up close everything is slightly too small.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.