Places evilporkchops Wants to Go

A 12-foot-tall metal fisherman looks out over the promenade.

The sole surviving medieval street cross in Scarborough.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

Derelict chemical plant on the North Sea is a beautiful industrial ruin.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

This sculpture honors a long-beloved English comic strip in the main character's hometown.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

A seaside morgue for the victims of the North Sea.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A World War I relic found in the middle of a modern residential area.

Turrets, ramparts and towers, this Teesside castle has them all, but it's not all as it seems.

Sidney Scurvy, the interactive computer sailor, takes you on a journey to discover the everyday lives of Cook and his men.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

This enormous sculpture honors an English town's engineering and industrial heritage

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

A surreal paleontological sculpture garden pays homage to a fading industry.

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

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

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

Home of the infamous Cauld Lad of Hylton and one of the inspirations behind "Alice" in Sunderland.

According to local legends, a monstrous worm once wrapped itself around this hill by the River Wear.

This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.