Places IanFry Wants to Go

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

The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.

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

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

This two-towered gateway is all that remains of the unluckiest pier in the world.

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

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

This mysterious chalk figure of a horse has been recreated and restored for more than a century.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

The ruins of a 12th-century seaside castle on the southwest coast of Scotland.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.

This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

One of the largest lenses of its kind ever created, this former ship beacon has been brought down to Earth.

Although it appears much older, this castle-like tower is actually a Georgian-era folly.

This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

Before becoming a poet John Keats studied here to become a surgeon.

This hilarious English intersection is an automotive whirlpool.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.