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This memorial depicts the unlikely team that won England the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

This moss-covered boulder is said to be part of a diabolical plant to sabotage the Durham Cathedral's foundation.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

The medieval-looking hammer beam teak roof may be a Victorian vanity, but it's still absolutely magnificent.

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

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.