Buxton, England
The Crescent
A historic Georgian building and warm springs.
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Buxton, England
A historic Georgian building and warm springs.
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Stretford, England
A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.
Salford, England
This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.
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.
Manchester, England
These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.
Manchester, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Manchester, England
A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.
Manchester, England
Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.
Bamford, England
This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
Emley, England
The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Skipton, England
Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Harrogate, England
Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.
Harrogate, England
Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.
Bradford, England
A museum devoted to the science of color.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Skipton, England
This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.
Pontypool, Wales
Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.