Sunderland, England
'Shadows in Another Light'
This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.
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Sunderland, England
This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.
Monkwearmouth, England
This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.
Sunderland, England
This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.
Gateshead, England
Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.
Bedale, England
The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.
Boroughbridge, England
At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.
Cervantes, Australia
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Retford, England
One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.
London, England
The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.
London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.
London, England
This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.
London, England
The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
London, England
A tribute to all the green-thumbed workers who tend London’s public parks and gardens.
Rye, England
Henry VIII's forgotten castle was built by the gunpowder-obsessed king to be defended solely by cannons.
Rye, England
Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.
Rye, England
An ancient water supply dating back almost 500 years can still be found standing in East Sussex.
East Sussex, England
Two gilded cherubs perched on a church bell tower have been reminding visitors of the finitude of life since 1760.
Rye, England
This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.
London, England
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
London, England
A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.
London, England
A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."