The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

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

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.