While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

Two of the most notable names in automobile history are commemorated at the place where they're said to have first met.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

One of the newest mosques in a city filled with thousands.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

The largest public library in the United Kingdom was designed to reflect the industrial and artistic history of the city where it stands.

A small alleyway with an unusual moniker.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.