Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro Cathedral
This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.
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Places I've been
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London, England
Mold Gold Cape
This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.
London, England
Coade Stone Caryatids
A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.
London, England
London Underground Labyrinths
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
London, England
Hoa Hakananai'a
The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.
London, England
The Soho Square Hut
The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.
London, England
Difference Engine #2
Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.
London, England
Richmond Park
This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.
Permanently Closed
London, England
PsychoBarn
A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.
London, England
Brown Hart Gardens
It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.
London, England
Kyoto Garden
A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.
London, England
Traitors' Gate
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
London, England
I Goat
Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.
London, England
The Burlington Arcade Beadles
This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.
London, England
The Tower Ravens
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
London, England
Allies Sculpture
Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
London, England
Battersea Power Station
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Permanently Closed
London, England
Pollock's Toy Museum
A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.
London, England
Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
Cecil Court
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
London, England
London's Lilliputian Police Station
London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.
London, England
Natural History Museum of London
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Hunterian Museum
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
Whispering Gallery at St Paul’s Cathedral
Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.
