Painswick, England
Painswick Rococo Garden
Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.
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Painswick, England
Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.
Ratlinghope, England
A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.
Vleteren, Belgium
Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Ypres, Belgium
In the shadow of a former battleground, the resting place for nearly 2,000 soldiers who died in World War I.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Arques, France
This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.
Helfaut, France
This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.
Ludlow, England
Centuries of human activity have forged an eerie landscape of ruins and craters on an exposed and windswept hilltop.
Wimborne Saint Giles, England
A small tower where a philosopher once speculated on human nature and morality.
Dorset, England
An Iron Age hill fort turned scenic nature park.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Mottisfont, England
Lurking among the classical architecture, rose gardens, and art of this historic country house—a crocodile in a bathtub.
Hamburg, Germany
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
York, England
The preserved left hand of a saint once known as "the Pearl of York."
Harrogate, England
A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.
Carnlough, Northern Ireland
This village provides a glimpse at rural life in Northern Ireland during the mid-20th-century.
County Donegal, Ireland
You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.
Southampton, England
Some of the last remaining relics of one of World War II's most important invasions.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Ghent, Belgium
An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.
Yviers, France
The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.
Southampton, England
This 700-year-old storehouse was a POW jail, aviation workshop, and Titanic memorial before becoming a brewpub.
Saint-Nazaire, France
These red marks, seemingly placed at random, are in fact not.