Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

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

The best place to acquire pea shooting fame.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

On this romantic tidal island reachable only at low tide the tomb of a famous French writer overlooks the sea.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.