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Items from the 1983 production of The Wind in the Willows.

Sale, England

Cosgrove Hall Films Archive

The materials from one of the United Kingdom’s most famous animation studios are now preserved in a suburban library.

Castlefield Viaduct

Manchester, England

Castlefield Viaduct

A Victorian-era British railway viaduct has been transformed into an elevated garden.

The Wedding of the hen

Lisbon, Portugal

'The Wedding of the Hen'

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

The famous facade and portal to the church.

Lisbon, Portugal

Jerónimos Monastery

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

Portuguese Royal Coaches at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon.

Lisbon, Portugal

National Coach Museum

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Beautiful internal machinery

Lisbon, Portugal

Electricity Museum

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

The Portail Abattoirs marking the entry to the horse market

Paris, France

Les Abattoirs de Vaugirard

The site of slaughterhouses that once satisfied Parisians' taste for horse meat is now home to a park and book market.

Amsterdam's smallest bar has been in business for more than two centuries.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Café De Dokter

The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.

The ruins of Mellor Mill.

Stockport, England

Mellor Mill

The remains of what was once the world’s largest spinning mill.

Close up of memorial stone with carving

Atherton, England

Memorial to Edward Ormerod

A Victorian gravestone has a carving of a safety device invented in the 1860s that is still saving lives today.

Moot Hall

Wirksworth, England

Moot Hall

This unique medieval court deals solely with the lead mining laws in two small areas of Derbyshire.

Close up photo of some of the ‘Cannonballs’

Southampton, England

Southampton Wall Cannonballs

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

Titanic Postal Workers Memorial

Southampton, England

Titanic Postal Workers Memorial

Dedicated to the five postal workers who died aboard the doomed ocean liner, this plaque was made from a spare propeller from the Titanic.

A plaque commemorating the events that unfolded here.

Southampton, England

Canute Chambers Plaque

This building was once the local office of White Star Line, the company that employed the crew on the Titanic when it sank.

LV78 in Ocean Village.

Southampton, England

Calshot Lightship

This bright ship once guided vessels towards the Port of Southampton.

One of the BHS murals tells the origin story of Stockport.

Stockport, England

The BHS Murals in Stockport

The history of Stockport is rendered In colorful concrete artwork.

The castle before recent refurbishment

Rotherham, England

Boston Castle

This small crenelated building was built by a British aristocrat who supported the American Revolution and may have named it in memory of a pivotal battle.

Steel Henge

Rotherham, England

Steel Henge

This metal installation is a tribute to an ancient megalithic structure and South Yorkshire's steel history.

The interior of the restored synagogue.

Manchester, England

Manchester Jewish Museum

A Victorian synagogue-turned-museum chronicles centuries of Jewish life.

Almenara Torre Nueva with Gibraltar in the background

La Línea de la Concepción, Spain

Torre Nueva

The defensive tower was built centuries ago to warn locals of Berber pirate attacks.

Thurgoland Tunnel.

Thurgoland, England

Thurgoland Tunnel

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

Battle of Marston Moor Monument

York, England

Battle of Marston Moor Monument

A monolith stands at the site of the most significant battle ever fought on British soil.

It may look a lot like Stonehenge, but it's not.

York, England

Dragon Stones

A modern mini-Stonehenge is hidden in a public reserve, not far from a former Viking stronghold.

Concrete clouds and sky mirrors.

Anderby Creek, England

The Cloud Bar

The world’s first dedicated cloud observation platform.

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