Cambridge, England
Mathematical Bridge
Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.
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Cambridge, England
Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.
Cambridge, England
Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.
Cambridge, England
The graveyard with the highest IQ in Britain.
Ely, England
A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.
Isle of Islay, Scotland
This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.
Isle of Islay, Scotland
An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.
Santa Cruz, California
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.
Penama Province, Vanuatu
The world’s most primitive form of bungee jumping.
Vanuatu
The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.
Berlin, Germany
This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Cambridge, England
A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.