Victoria, Malta
The Street Shrines of Victoria
More than fifty centuries-old religious shrines hide in the walls and above the doorways of Gozo’s capital, and most visitors walk straight past them.
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Victoria, Malta
More than fifty centuries-old religious shrines hide in the walls and above the doorways of Gozo’s capital, and most visitors walk straight past them.
London, England
Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.
Cape Town, South Africa
A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.
Cape Town, South Africa
Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.
Limassol, Cyprus
A children's mosaic in Limassol using deep-sea creature patterns to honor young lives lost across several genocides, including Cyprus’s own 1974 wounds.
England
This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.
Episkopi, Cyprus
A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.
Marsa Alam, Egypt
A vast floating ceiling ripples above the terminal like the waves of the Red Sea meeting the surrounding desert.
Woolpit, England
A rather creepy sign alludes to the bizarre and famous history of the "green children of Woolpit"
Ambleside, England
Looking like something out of a fairytale, this tiny house was built over a stream to avoid paying land taxes
Nottingham, England
Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.
Winchester, England
Intricate 14th-century floor tiles hidden underfoot in Winchester Cathedral
London, England
This cul-de-sac off Fleet Street is said to be the place where the infamous Demon Barber made a killing
London, England
A statuesque figure of a feline stands sentry over a ostentatious spiral staircase
London, England
The longest Champagne Bar in Europe, if not the world
Bristol City, England
Installed in 1938, this was the first moving neon sign in Bristol
Singapore, Singapore
An abandoned Sultan's palace in the middle of a park next to one of Singapore's most popular tourist spots
London, England
A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Rock-cut homes carved into limestone cliffs in Malta's Punic era
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Mysterious prehistoric grooves carved into the Maltese rock, purpose unknown
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
An ancient hillside apiary from Malta's Punic and Roman honey trade
Bury St Edmunds, England
A rare medieval bone-house, surrounded by remarkable memorial stones
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
A rock-cut Maltese tomb marked with a mysterious carving of a war galley
London, England
A relic from ancient Egypt that is purported to have a curse associated with it