London, England
Platform 9 3/4
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
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London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Bristol, England
Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.
Bristol, England
A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.
Bristol, England
17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.
Bristol, England
The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Milton Keynes, England
Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.
Oxford, England
Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.
Oxford, England
This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
London, England
Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.
London, England
Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
A student driver's nightmare.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
London, England
The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Florence, Italy
This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.