This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

The world's most charming instant portrait studio also happens to be its smallest.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

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

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.

Designed by the architect who also had a hand in crafting the Westminster Abbey and Bristol Cathedral.

This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'

This Art Deco house is home to the world's largest collection of Dora Gordine's paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.