Belfast, Northern Ireland
'The Salmon of Knowledge'
A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.
York, England
The remains of an ancient bathhouse sit inside this aptly-named pub.
Coventry, England
Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The statue honors a beloved bird that once roamed St. George's Market.
Manchester, England
An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.
Gateshead, England
Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh's oldest statue hides within a parking lot behind the city's iconic cathedral.
Chesterfield, England
The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.
Isle of Barra, Scotland
The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.
Bourton-on-the-Water, England
A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.
Dundee, Scotland
A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.
Whitby, England
These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.
Cardiff, Wales
The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.
Bristol, England
Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.
London, England
The Great Fire of London and the regulation of one-way streets both started in this alley.
Oxford, England
This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.
John o' Groats, Scotland
The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.
London, England
Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.
Coventry, England
The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.
Birmingham, England
England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.
London, England
The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.