England
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England
Castleton, England
Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.
Hope Valley, England
A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom
Swinton, England
The remains of a historic kiln once used to produce the famous Rockingham porcelain.
Sheffield, England
A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.
Burnley, England
A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.
Sheffield, England
Seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, a steel chair sits on a tiny island only accessible by stepping stones.
Brampton Bierlow, England
A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.
Ilkley, England
This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.
Rochdale, England
A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.
Wortley, England
This once private residence is now a popular wedding venue and training center for trade union officers.
Barnsley, England
These ruins are a monument to the region's industrial heritage, and the site of England's worst mining tragedy.
Halifax, England
This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.
Holmfirth, England
Halifax, England
A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.
Halifax, England
Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.
Bradford, England
A museum devoted to the science of color.
Wakefield, England
An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.
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.
Barnsley, England
Graham Ibbesons's moving tribute to the victims of England's worst mining disaster.
South Yorkshire, England
From a distance it looks like a real castle, but up close everything is slightly too small.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Glossop, England
The wreck of a B-29 Superfortress now stands as a memorial left in the moors.