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Liverpool, England

Penny Lane

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Church of St. Luke, Liverpool

Liverpool, England

Church of St. Luke, Liverpool

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

Platform 9 3/4

London, England

Platform 9 3/4

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Orator at Speakers' Corner at 1974

London, England

Speakers' Corner

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

221b, Baker Street

London, England

221b Baker Street

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

It is where canine couple Pongo and Perdita meet for the first time in the Disney classic '101 Dalmatians'.

London, England

Queen Mary's Garden

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

The Gasholders.

London, England

Gasholders

These 19th-century gas tanks were remade into an apartment complex.

London's floating bookstore.

London, England

Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Museum of London Docklands

London, England

Museum of London Docklands

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

London, England

Greenwich Foot Tunnel

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

London, England

The Real Greenwich Prime Meridian

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Brightly Colored Display Cases

London, England

Horniman Museum and Gardens

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Ruins of the Crystal Palace

London, England

Ruins of the Crystal Palace

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Iguanodon. The horns on the nose are actually thumbs. (Wikimedia Commons)

London, England

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The statue of Guy the gorilla.

London, England

Statue of Guy the Gorilla

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

A stairwell display.

Leeds, England

Royal Armouries Museum

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

High Royds Hospital

Menston, England

High Royds Hospital

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

Inside the cafe

Prague, Czechia

Municipal House

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

The Lennon Wall.

Prague, Czechia

Lennon Wall

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Kabourek.

Prague, Czechia

Kabourek

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Tableau on the Charles Bridge depicting Saint John at the bottom of the Vltava River.

Prague, Czechia

Location of Saint John of Nepomuk's Martyrdom

A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.

Statue of Franz Kafka with headphones for size comparison.

Prague, Czechia

Statue of Franz Kafka

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The mummified forearm

Prague, Czechia

The Thief's Arm at Kostel Sv. Jakuba Vetsiho

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

House of the Black Madonna

Prague, Czechia

House of the Black Madonna

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

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