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‘Deep Silent Gaze’

Limassol, Cyprus

‘Deep Silent Gaze’

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.

This has the ''Room where it happened!"

England

Southwick House

This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.

House of the Gladiators

Episkopi, Cyprus

House of the Gladiators

A 3rd-century Roman villa in Kourion with one of the only mosaics in Cyprus to depict gladiators fighting by name.

Red Sea Terminal

Marsa Alam, Egypt

Red Sea Terminal

A vast floating ceiling ripples above the terminal like the waves of the Red Sea meeting the surrounding desert.

The Green Children of Woolpit.

Woolpit, England

Woolpit Village Sign

A rather creepy sign alludes to the bizarre and famous history of the "green children of Woolpit"

Side view

Ambleside, England

The Bridge House

Looking like something out of a fairytale, this tiny house was built over a stream to avoid paying land taxes

The clock tower of the old Nottingham Victoria Station

Nottingham, England

Site of Nottingham Victoria Railway Station

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.

Medieval Encaustic Tiles

Winchester, England

Medieval Encaustic Tiles

Intricate 14th-century floor tiles hidden underfoot in Winchester Cathedral

Hen and Chicken Court, London.

London, England

Hen and Chicken Court

This cul-de-sac off Fleet Street is said to be the place where the infamous Demon Barber made a killing

Heal's Cat

London, England

Heal's Cat

A statuesque figure of a feline stands sentry over a ostentatious spiral staircase

St. Pancras International Station

London, England

Searcy's

The longest Champagne Bar in Europe, if not the world

The Mauretania Sign

Bristol City, England

The Mauretania Sign

Installed in 1938, this was the first moving neon sign in Bristol

Istana Woodneuk

Singapore, Singapore

Istana Woodneuk

An abandoned Sultan's palace in the middle of a park next to one of Singapore's most popular tourist spots

The Tower of All Hallows Staining

London, England

The Tower of All Hallows Staining

A lone medieval church tower marooned among the City of London's skyscrapers

Punic Cave Dwellings

St. Paul's Bay, Malta

Punic Cave Dwellings

Rock-cut homes carved into limestone cliffs in Malta's Punic era

Raddet Ir-Roti Cart Ruts

St. Paul's Bay, Malta

Raddet Ir-Roti Cart Ruts

Mysterious prehistoric grooves carved into the Maltese rock, purpose unknown

Punico-Roman Apiary

St. Paul's Bay, Malta

Punico-Roman Apiary

An ancient hillside apiary from Malta's Punic and Roman honey trade

Bury St Edmunds Charnel House

Bury St Edmunds, England

Bury St Edmunds Charnel House

A rare medieval bone-house, surrounded by remarkable memorial stones

The Galley Cave

St. Paul's Bay, Malta

The Galley Cave

A rock-cut Maltese tomb marked with a mysterious carving of a war galley

Unlucky Mummy

London, England

Unlucky Mummy

A relic from ancient Egypt that is purported to have a curse associated with it

Charing Cross

London, England

Center of London

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

Nairobi National Park

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi National Park

A pristine wildlife habitat against the backdrop of skyscrapers, nicknamed "The World’s Wildlife Capital"

Dinorwic Slate Quarry

Llanberis, Wales

Dinorwic Slate Quarry

What was once the world's second largest slate quarry is now a surreal post-industrial landscape

Winchester Palace

London, England

Winchester Palace

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

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