The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.

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

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

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

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This amazingly well-preserved villa just outside Pompeii boasts rare examples of ancient Roman paintings.

Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

The middle finger of modernity.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

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

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.