The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

This roundabout, outside an important UK garrison town, used to be the route of an important military railway and it is now commemorated with a magnificent locomotive sculpture

This former railway station is now an impressive cultural and retail centre and a magnet for railroad history fans

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The world's oldest railway bridge in continuous use.

A piece of public art commemorating the world's first Black professional footballer.

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

A 7th-century church in northeast England built using stones from a nearby Roman fort.

A Munch-inspired sculpture brings the despair of war to life.

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

A tribute to the city's rich history of shipbuilding.

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

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.

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

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

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

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

Originally built in the 15th century, this well gave the surrounding area its name.

A statue dedicated to the story behind the founded of the city.

An unlikely link between a quiet English town and Sydney’s skyline.

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

These lamps were created to expel sewer gases after an event known as The Great Stink.

A rather grand, but tiny, folly on the banks of the River Wear associated with a Polish count.