Places Edited by rbenn250

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.