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The abbey at Westminster is full of markers honoring those that have come before. If you look closely, you'll see names of the dead carved into several of the dark tiles in this hallway.

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Gothic details are carved into a variety of spaces throughout Westminster Abbey, including this iron window covering overlooking a courtyard.

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We admittedly came to see this church because its roof has excellent views of the city of Oxford.

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The church has a narrow parapet where one can circle around the roof and see the city of Oxford below. Here, you see a Renaissance-era statue overlooking All Souls College in the background.

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For such a large building in a busy city, Westminster has spaces that have been carved out for reflection.

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London has become a city of old and new, juxtaposing old buildings like St. Paul's Cathedral, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, with the Millenium Bridge in the foreground, which opened in 2000.

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This photograph of St. Paul's was taken from the opposing side of the Thames River along the Embankment.

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One of the most photographed spots in Oia, the blue domes on the white churches stand out against the Mediterranean Sea.

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When Italians occupied this island in the 1920s, they tried to improve the grounds at Filerimos. They built a walk to Calvary, with stations of the cross leading to a large cross overlooking the island. (If you look closely, you'll see that the text…

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A much earlier settlement, called Ialyssos, had its own Acropolis here on Rhodes.
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