A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

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

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

Two of Manchester’s oldest buildings were moved twice.

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

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.

This building's name and a plaque are all that's left of what was probably the most important nightclub of the Madchester music scene.

This bronze statue honors one of the leaders of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

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

A small alleyway with an unusual moniker.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

A gigantic mechanical bull rages over unsuspecting passengers at Birmingham’s central station.

This hidden bridge is where local children leave gifts and messages for the island's fay folk.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.