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This Victorian footbridge over the River Tees was originally built to carry water from the high moorland to the industrial towns on the coast.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

This impressive mural adorns the wall of this 17th-century hotel and honors the literary icon.

This incredible viaduct was part of the Victorian railway boom and helped the Midland Railway navigate tough terrain.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A trove of history focused on Marks & Spencer, the British department store.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

This life-sized sculpture has gained a reputation for bringing luck to anybody who touches it.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.