Milton Keynes, England
Bletchley Park
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
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Milton Keynes, England
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Bristol, England
An authentic, seaworthy replica of the ship that sailed to Newfoundland in 1497.
Bristol, England
The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Salisbury, England
This gate served as a small lock-up jail in the 14th century.
Salisbury, England
The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.
Salisbury, England
The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.
Cardiff, Wales
This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Yeres, Spain
Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.
Oviedo, Spain
Two large posteriors in one giant statue.
Santiago, Chile
The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.
Madrid, Spain
Along the pavement of this neighborhood in Madrid are quotes from famous authors.
Collado Villalba, Spain
This odd stone has served as a meeting place for local councils since the 17th century.
Puente Viesgo, Spain
The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.
A Coruña, Spain
The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.
Paris, France
Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Harrogate, England
Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
Leeds, England
Since 1995, two red-painted metal figures have guarded the entrance to the Northern Ballet.