Edinburgh, Scotland
The Scotsman Steps
The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.
Wirksworth, England
This unique medieval court deals solely with the lead mining laws in two small areas of Derbyshire.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.
Kirkby Lonsdale, England
A beautiful medieval bridge allegedly constructed by the Devil.
Genoa, Italy
This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.
Masua, Italy
This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.
Doorn, Netherlands
The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.
Firbank, England
The abandoned railway bridge stands hidden in the farmland of rural Cumbria.
London, England
The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.
London, England
A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.
Mansfield, England
This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.
Freiberg, Germany
A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.
Búðardalur, Iceland
A fantastic reconstruction of a 10th-century Viking longhouse.
Chesterfield, England
A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.
Bournemouth, England
The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.
London, England
The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.
Consett, England
These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.
Llanelli, Wales
A section of a historic wooden trestle viaduct is preserved next to the railway line it once carried.
London, England
This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.
Göttingen, Germany
A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.
Oxford, England
The remnants of this unusual bridge await an uncertain fate.
Oxford, England
A little piece of Oxford's overlooked industrial heritage.