A statuesque figure of a feline stands sentry over a ostentatious spiral staircase

A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.

A mysterious suspended hand greets unsuspecting visitors at the Tower of London.

A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Amongst the decadent homes that surround London’s Regent’s Park stands a replica of one of Denmark's most significant national treasures

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

The world’s first permanent museum dedicated to female genitalia.

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.

At Bank station, the tunneling shield that built the original Waterloo & City line tunnel is hiding in plain sight

An Art Nouveau church decorated in mother-of-pearl and aluminum.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.