Tissington, England
Derbyshire Well Dressing
The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.
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Tissington, England
The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.
Middlesbrough, England
Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.
Maybole, Scotland
An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.
Penzance, England
A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.
London, England
Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.
Nottingham, England
The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.
Falkland Islands
An ever-growing field of footwear invites legends and more shoes.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Aberystwyth, Wales
A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed āHogwarts.ā
Buxton, England
Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.
Matlock Bath, England
Bakewell, England
Matlock Bath, England
This historic textile mill has been repurposed as a shopping outlet, which houses a textile museum that celebrates its industrial past.
Sutton Scarsdale, England
Bolsover, England
This restored 17th century "conduit house," often mistaken for a watchtower, actually supplied water to nearby Bolsover Castle.
Crich, England
This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.
Mansfield, England
This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.
Stanton Lees, England
Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.
Cromford, England
The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.
West Stockwith, England
In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Concepción, Chile
The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.
Traquair, Scotland
The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.
Coventry, England
A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.