One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

One of the oldest and largest wooden churches in France was very evidently constructed by shipbuilders.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

A surreal paleontological sculpture garden pays homage to a fading industry.

The construction of this bridge dates back to the 15th century.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

A famous pilgrimage site that remains hidden in the midst of a city.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

The river that gave its name to a 1960s musical movement has a rather inauspicious starting point in town outside of Manchester.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

Buddhist university that allows English-language speakers the opportunity to study with monks in Thailand.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

This statue includes small details that highlight a city of "firsts."

Different sections of the Zemun Fortress were built in the 14th and 15th century as a response to the advance of the Ottoman Empire.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.