This bronze statue stands throughout the year and illustrates an urgent message about the environment.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.

The construction of this bridge dates back to the 15th century.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

Opened in 1932, this theater in Stockport's Mersey Square is a bonafide Art-Deco gem.

Remembering the 72 passengers who lost their lives in 1967 airplane wreck.

Paul McCartney, Joy Division, and many others created era-defining music at this former recording studio.

Nicknamed the 'Chestergate Hotel,' the underground tunnel had beds, lights, and even flushing toilets.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

This statue of an everyday cleaning tool sits proud upon a plinth in Manchester's coolest quarter.