Alnwick, England
Barter Books
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
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Alnwick, England
This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
Henshaw, England
Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.
Corbridge, England
This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.
Durham, England
A rather grand, but tiny, folly on the banks of the River Wear associated with a Polish count.
Monkwearmouth, England
This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.
Geoje-si, South Korea
One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.
Northumberland, England
This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.
Stanley, England
The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.
Middlesbrough, England
Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.
Paju, South Korea
South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.
Paju, South Korea
The best place for scenic views of the DMZ and North Korea.
Paju, South Korea
The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.
Kværndrup, Denmark
Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.
Birmingham, England
This ingenious engineering solution was built to stop the "theft" of canal water.
Ripponden, England
The house in the middle of the motorway.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Darlington, England
A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.
Seaham, England
Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.
Aarhus, Denmark
This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.
Højbjerg, Denmark
Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.
Esbjerg, Denmark
Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.
Odense, Denmark
This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.
Odense, Denmark
A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.