Budapest, Hungary
Thermae Maiores
Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.
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Budapest, Hungary
Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.
Machecoul, France
The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.
London, England
A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
London, England
Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
London, England
Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London , England
The breadfruit-adorned final resting place of the infamous Captain of the HMS Bounty.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Wheatley, England
Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.
Stoke Row, England
A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.
Hope Valley, England
There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Pembroke, Wales
A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.
Coventry, England
All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.