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

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.

An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

The 2,000-year-old pieces of metal are an ancient soldier's military discharge papers.

This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England.

Take afternoon tea in a 17th-century almshouse.

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

A once-beautiful retreat is now a crumbling ruin.

These courts are the only ones of their kind in the world, made for a unique ball game that dates back to the 1700s.

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.

The final resting place of England's most notorious bandit.

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

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

Though this bridge was originally built in the 12th century, only one of its 10 arches dates back that far.

A monument with a strange legend involving a horse's tongue.

A statue commemorating the perilous journey made by the monks who delivered the body of St. Cuthbert.

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

An unusual stone chair can be found on the banks of the River Wear, not far from Durham Cathedral.