According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This Roman monument is surrounded by more recent construction, offering a stark contrast between ancient architecture and the modern urban landscape.

A giant coin serves as a very unusual yet creative monument commemorating one of the most important people in the history of Trieste.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

At the center of London’s oldest roundabout stands an obelisk that was erected in 1771, but spent several decades elsewhere.

A recreation of a sign that Charles Dickens used to see on his walk home.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

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

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.