These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

This massive memorial commemorates those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

Dozens of snakes are housed and worshipped within the walls of this Vodun temple.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

The last remaining site of Yoruba worship of the fertility goddess.

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.