The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

A bustling bazaar with an elaborate facade in Central Asia’s underrated capital.

Next to a newer mosque in Khujand’s main square lies the city’s oldest mosque, whose interiors are spectacularly intricate.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

An ancient yew tree and holy well nestle beside a remarkable 13th-century church.

The "Mother Temple of the Pacific Islands" stands at the center of 20 acres of lush, tropical prayer gardens.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

Heralded as the oldest statue in London.

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.

The first regular high-definition TV transmissions were made from this seemingly out-of-place mast located on one corner of a Victorian-era entertainment venue.

This wooden effigy believed to be King Charles I hung for centuries outside an inn and was mistaken for a deity.

The birthplace of Jane Austen commemorated the 200th anniversary of her death with a bronze statue of the beloved author.

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

Visit the WWII bunker where the British won the battle for the skies.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

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