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A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

Memorial to the Titanic engineers that died working to hold back the sea.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.