Florence, Italy
Statue of Fernando I
A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Florence, Italy
Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy
The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.
Florence, Italy
Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Florence, Italy
Cloister of the Dead
A haunting medieval cloister that once served as the friars’ burial ground.
Florence, Italy
Plautilla Nelli’s 'Last Supper'
More than 450 years ago, an Italian nun became the first woman to paint the iconic subject.
Florence, Italy
La Berta
Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.
Florence, Italy
Il Porcellino
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Florence, Italy
Bronze Replica of Michelangelo’s David
A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.
London, England
Oval Gasholder
How did a fuel storage container become one of the most famous sights in the sporting world of cricket?
London, England
The Churchill War Rooms
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Guildhall's Underground Roman Amphitheater
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
The Ten Bells Pub
Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.
London, England
Brick Lane Roundels
Art under your feet honors the history of a working-class London neighborhood.
London, England
Neuron Pod
A building that looks like a giant hedgehog, in the middle of East London.
London, England
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.
London, England
Site of Execution Dock
Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.
London, England
World Trade Center Artwork
This sculpture, residing in a quiet corner of a London park, honors the victims of 9/11.
London, England
Site of the Original Globe Theatre
The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.
London, England
Kingsway Tramway Subway
A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.
London, England
Grant Museum of Zoology
The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.
London, England
‘Three Figures’
A configuration of a trio of statues that depict a scene reflecting a time emblematic in the city’s rich history.
London, England
St. George the Martyr’s Black Clockface
One of the four clock faces on this church is mismatched, in a nod to a historic slight.
London, England
Alcove From Old London Bridge
Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.
