Whitby, England
Whitby Museum, Library & Archive
The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.
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Whitby, England
The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.
Whitby, England
The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.
Whitby, England
These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.
Whitby, England
The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.
Whitby, England
A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'
Whitby, England
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Whitby, England
This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.
Whitby, England
The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.
Whitby, England
The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.
Robin Hood's Bay, England
This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.
Robin Hood's Bay, England
This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
Leeds, England
This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.
Sheffield, England
An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.
Sheffield, England
This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.
Glossop, England
The wreck of a B-29 Superfortress now stands as a memorial left in the moors.
Chapel-le-Dale, England
This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.
Manchester, England
19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.
Pembroke, Wales
A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.
Kilgetty, Wales
Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.
Withernsea, England
This two-towered gateway is all that remains of the unluckiest pier in the world.
Malton, England
This small figurine of a bear tells us a lot about the value of jewels and funerary practices in Roman Britannia.
Bishopthorpe, England
Cycle the solar system—from the sun to Pluto—right here on earth.
Seascale, England
The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.