London, England
Victoria & Albert Museum Dining Rooms
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
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London, England
Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
London, England
A living memorial to the trees London lost during the Great Storm of 1987.
London, England
An unusual ode to the late Irish playwright, complete with a squiggly bust and coffin-shaped bench.
Kinver, England
The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.
Willen, England
The first peace pagoda to be constructed in the Western world sits next to a small English lake.
Milton Keynes, England
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
Milton Keynes, England
This suburban British town holds secrets that would have made the druids proud.
Dronten, Netherlands
This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.
Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands
This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.
Bristol, England
England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.
Bristol, England
17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.
Bristol, England
A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.
Bristol, England
Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.
Bristol, England
The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."
Bristol, England
The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.
Bristol, England
The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Kyoto, Japan
Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.
Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Iwakuni, Japan
One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.