Ticknall, England
The Ticknall Tramway
A historic industrial rail network that could include the oldest railway bridge in the world
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Ticknall, England
A historic industrial rail network that could include the oldest railway bridge in the world
Worksop, England
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
Weston-super-Mare, England
The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
Inisheer, Ireland
A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.
Heath, England
Tibshelf, England
Britain doesn't have a lot of petroleum reserves on dry land but this well was the first to strike oil.
Southwold, England
A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.
Ripley, England
This small museum claims to be the only one in the world dedicated to the history of forklift trucks
Pont-en-Royans, France
These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.
Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.
Bollène, France
Series of underground houses inhabited continuously for centuries.
Beaumont, France
Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."
Durham, England
These courts are the only ones of their kind in the world, made for a unique ball game that dates back to the 1700s.
Sunderland, England
One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."
Lynford, England
A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.
Thursford, England
A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.
Wentworth, England
This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.
Brampton Bierlow, England
A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.
King's Lynn, England
The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.
Cheadle, England
Inside this reclamation yard is a unique collection of horse-drawn vehicles.
Bishop Auckland, England
Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.