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One of two, still accessible, "cut and cover" tunnels on the tramway

Ticknall, England

The Ticknall Tramway

A historic industrial rail network that could include the oldest railway bridge in the world

Oxcroft Estate

Worksop, England

Oxcroft Estate

The legacy of a social experiment of the 1930s funded by Andrew Carnegie's Charity is a dispersed group of 40 houses of identical original design dotted across 400 acres of Derbyshire agricultural land

The Helicopter Museum

Weston-super-Mare, England

The Helicopter Museum

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

Tetrapod Trackway

Kerry, Ireland

Tetrapod Trackway

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

MV Plassy in 1962

Inisheer, Ireland

MV Plassy

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway.

Bushmills, Northern Ireland

Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

Stainsby Mill

Heath, England

Stainsby Mill

Site of the UK’s First Oil Well

Tibshelf, England

Site of the UK’s First Oil Well

Britain doesn't have a lot of petroleum reserves on dry land but this well was the first to strike oil.

Welcome to the Under the Pier Show.

Southwold, England

Under the Pier Show

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

 National Fork Truck Heritage Centre

Ripley, England

National Fork Truck Heritage Centre

This small museum claims to be the only one in the world dedicated to the history of forklift trucks

The suspended houses of Pont-en-Royans.

Pont-en-Royans, France

Suspended Houses of Pont-en-Royans

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

Pont du Gard

Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France

Pont du Gard

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

(paul_appleyard/Flickr)

Bollène, France

Barry Troglodyte Village

Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.

Bottles of Cuvée des Vignes d’Antan.

Beaumont, France

Beaumont's Black-Market Wine

Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.

Pont d'Arc

Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France

Pont d'Arc

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

The playing fields

Durham, England

"Cat" Ball Court

These courts are the only ones of their kind in the world, made for a unique ball game that dates back to the 1700s.

St. Peter's Church.

Sunderland, England

St. Peter's Church

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

Grime's Graves Neolithic flint mines.

Lynford, England

Grime's Graves

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

Gallopers.

Thursford, England

Thursford Collection

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

Hoober Stand.

Wentworth, England

Hoober Stand

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

Needle's Eye, with a person for scale.

Brampton Bierlow, England

Needle's Eye

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

SS Vina

King's Lynn, England

SS Vina Shipwreck

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

Les Oakes and Sons Architectural Reclamation Yard

Cheadle, England

Les Oakes and Sons Architectural Reclamation Yard

Inside this reclamation yard is a unique collection of horse-drawn vehicles.

The two well-preserved ovens virtually intact.

Bishop Auckland, England

Inkerman Beehive Coke Ovens

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

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