San Francisco, California
Jack Kerouac Alley
Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.
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San Francisco, California
Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.
London, England
This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.
London, England
A statue for a zoo that was never built.
London, England
A forgotten underground railway once whooshed trams beneath London.
London, England
The (fictional) address of Sweeney Todd's bloody barbershop.
London, England
The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.
London, England
The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.
Lancashire, England
This abandoned Brutalist tower looming over the M6 Motorway once featured a restaurant.
Birmingham, England
A collection of windows created by two of the foremost leaders in the British Arts and Crafts Movement.
London, England
London’s first road overpass is so old that it was originally built for horse-drawn carriages.
London, England
One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.
London, England
The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
London, England
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
London, England
Near the site where the English Archbishop was born, you can find an emblem in the shape of a pilgrim's badge.
London, England
Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.
London, England
The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
London, England
A display of everyday life in the area that was unveiled during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
London, England
A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Paris, France
An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.
Paris, France
A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.
Paris, France
The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.
Paris, France
Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.