This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

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

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

The little-known second castle that William the Conqueror built in York.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

In England, an 18th-century water-powered workshop still stands.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.