Wakefield, England
Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin
A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.
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Wakefield, England
A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.
Stanbury, England
The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
Bramhope, England
This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Bingley, England
A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.
Baildon, England
This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.
Bradford, England
A museum devoted to the science of color.
London, England
A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.
London, England
A sculpture of a famous ape who was once a beloved household name in London.
London, England
The remains of a historic football stadium that once hosted 50,000 spectators.
London, England
Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.
London, England
The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.
London, England
A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.
London, England
These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.
London, England
This informal museum is a magical trove of anonymous art collected from car boots and flea markets.
London, England
A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.
London, England
Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.
London, England
A wonderfully preserved example of London's 1960s-style high-density, low-rise public housing.
London, England
"We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue, and then we'll take it higher..."
London, England
The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.
London, England
This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.
London, England
A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.
London, England
A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.