Places Edited by rbenn250

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Rare and strange weather predictors, from mercury barometers to leech prognosticators.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Commonly acknowledged as the only public monument to the Devil himself.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.