The marvel of an early Byzantine mosaic map of the Middle East was discovered on a church floor here last century and is on view today.

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Slap in the centre of town stands St George's Church, where the only surviving fragment of the famed Mosaic Map of the Holy Land is interred in the floor.

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The below-street-level New York Transit Museum Store in downtown Brooklyn takes underground standards to a new level with antique subway token cufflinks, monogrammed mosaic tiles and subway map shower curtains.

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