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Clarendon War Memorial.

Arlington, Virginia

Clarendon War Memorial

Situated in a bustling intersection, this "mobile" monument that honors local veterans from five different wars has moved several times but appears to have found its final resting place.

A half-smoke sausage from Weenie Beenie

Arlington, Virginia

Weenie Beenie

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

Dashes mark the Potomac low tide waterline, dots mark Roache's Run

Arlington, Virginia

Alexander's Island Border Dispute

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The sign is blocked by overgrown weeds.

Arlington, Virginia

Pentagon Cable Crossing Sign

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

The grave of James Parks.

Arlington, Virginia

James Parks Grave

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

Ruins of the kitchen outbuilding

Arlington, Virginia

Abingdon Plantation Ruins

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The Rosslyn Metro escalator. (Steven Cohen/Atlas Obscura)

Arlington, Virginia

Rosslyn Metro Escalator

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The pyramid.

Orange Walk, Belize

Cuello Mayan Ruins

These enigmatic ruins continue to vex archaeologists.

Air photo showing both towers

Grimsby, England

Grimsby's other dock tower

The second of Grimsby's two towers represents a massive step change in hydraulic engineering in the 19th century.

Thor's Cave seen from the Manifold Valley floor

England

Thor's Cave

This cave is the burial site of at least seven people and was occupied for over a thousand years.

One of the garden plots, this one in private ownership, with one of the summerhouses

Warwick, England

Hill Close Gardens

Rare survivals of Victorian gardens once used by townsfolk living above their business to escape from the crowded town

Hawkesbury Canal Junction

Coventry, England

Hawkesbury Canal Junction

A historic 18th century transportation interchange where arguments about tolls resulted in a very unusual lock.

Brusselton Incline, West slope. Here the remains of stone sleepers showing through the turf.

Bishop Auckland, England

Etherley and Brusselton Inclines

A length of abandoned railway track that was the real starting point of the worlds first steam hauled passenger railway.

The Spetchells

England

The Spetchells

Northumberland has no natural deposits of chalk amongst its surface geology but The Spechells form an area of chalk grassland created from a waste tip generated from the industrial activity of the area during WW2.

Reunification Bridge

Loughborough, England

Reunification Bridge

The bridge which will eventually overcome the barrier to the unification of two heritage railway lines which both claim the Great Central Railway's illustrious name

Interior of  the Chapel

Grindleford, England

Padley Chapel

A reminder of religious intolerance and state sponsored corruption in 16th century Britain

Late 18th century  headstone used as a paving stone outside the main door.

Lincoln, England

Saint Giles Church, Lincoln

Known locally as the church that moved

Inside the exhibition, one of the iconic props from the show.

Holmfirth, England

Last of the Summer Wine Locations

Mullicourt Aqueduct

Outwell, England

Mullicourt Aqueduct

An aqueduct which carries a natural river over a large artificial drainage channel is thought to be the aqueduct with the lowest headroom in the country.

Lamp 4 on School Road , S10

Nether Edge, England

Sheffield's Six Sewer Gas Lamps Race

A challenge course around 6 of the surviving sewer gas destructor lamps in south and west Sheffield

Vazon swing bridge- push or pull bar to open

Keadby, England

Keadby's Moveable Bridges

This small north Lincolnshire village is blessed with examples of three different types of moveable bridge

St John the Baptist Church, Ermine

Lincoln, England

St John the Baptist Church, Ermine

A 1960s church with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof and an amazing stained glass window

Edwardian Tram Waiting Rooms

Darwen, England

Edwardian Tram Waiting Rooms

An example of early 20th century gender segregation

View along Lemington Gut , the original course of the Tyne at Lemington Staithes

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Lemington Staithes and the Wylam Waggonway

The route and destination of the coal trains pulled by the famous "Puffing Billy" and its twin, the "Wylam Dilly"

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