This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.

Hidden masterpieces in a small church in the medieval city of Bergamo.

Exchange a book at the entrance of this medieval Lovere alley.

If you ever wanted to touch a medieval mercenary’s three testicles, look no further.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

One of the smallest parks in San Francisco honors the legacy of the "Mother of Civil Rights in California."

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.