Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

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

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

The western face was supposedly left clock-less to snub the Welsh.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.