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Comic Strip Route

Brussels, Belgium

Comic Strip Route

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

The Flying Horse

Nottingham, England

The Flying Horse

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

Concrete clouds and sky mirrors.

Anderby Creek, England

The Cloud Bar

The world’s first dedicated cloud observation platform.

The RTV-31.

Peterborough, England

RTV 31 Tracked Hovercraft

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

Court Barn from Lee-on-Solent.

Chichester, England

Weald and Downland Living Museum

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

Peasholm Park's Naval Battles

Scarborough, England

Peasholm Park's Naval Battles

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Timbers from Seahenge on display at the Lynn Museum.

King's Lynn, England

Seahenge

This captivating Bronze Age timber circle spent centuries concealed by the tides.

Southend Pier Railway.

Southend-on-Sea, England

Southend Pier Railway

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

The Nails outside Bristol's Corn Exchange.

Bristol, England

The Nails

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

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.

Memorial to the Women of World War II.

London, England

Memorial to the Women of World War II

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The two cablecars.

Baildon, England

Shipley Glen Tramway

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

Charing Cross Mural.

London, England

Charing Cross Mural

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

Normanton Church.

Normanton, England

Normanton Church

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

Thurgoland Tunnel.

Thurgoland, England

Thurgoland Tunnel

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

Ben Cruachan - The Hollow Mountain

Dalmally, Scotland

Ben Cruachan

This mountain is one of the largest in Scotland but is better known for its hollow insides.

Dick's Lane Bridge

Warwick, England

Dick's Lane Bridge

A great example of the inventive canal bridges that were deliberately split down the middle.

The sign.

Glenelg, Scotland

Glenelg Welcome Sign

The sign announces the Scottish village's cosmic connections, as it's twinned with Glenelg, Mars.

Abbotsbury Swanery

Weymouth, England

Abbotsbury Swannery

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

High Force.

Forest-in-Teesdale, England

High Force and Low Force Waterfalls

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

Rope making equipment in the cave mouth, looking out.

Castleton, England

Peak Cavern's Rope Factory

Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.

Smoo Cave interior.

Durness, Scotland

Smoo Cave

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

Coffin bench.

Whitby, England

199 Steps Coffin Benches

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

The Magic Roundabout

Swindon, England

Swindon Magic Roundabout

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

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