The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This century-old, single-screen cinema still puts a 1937 Compton organ to good use.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

This industrial museum is based on one of the oldest standing iron forges in the U.K.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

An oddly shaped tower built to mark the acquittal of Admiral Keppel in a controversial 1770s case.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

These ruins are a monument to the region's industrial heritage, and the site of England's worst mining tragedy.

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.