Sheffield, England
Alfred Denny Museum
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
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Sheffield, England
Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."
Lancaster, England
The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.
Faringdon, England
The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.
Eyam, England
Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.
Manchester, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Ripon, England
One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
East Molesey, England
England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.
Saint Blazey, England
The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Warminster, England
The longest hedge maze in the world.
Boscastle, England
The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.
Caledon, Ontario
These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.
Bankhead, Alberta
The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.
Division No. 10, Subd. D, Newfoundland and Labrador
This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.
Québec
This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.
Prince Albert No. 461, Saskatchewan
This partially completed dam was simply abandoned after nearly destroying the city it was built to service.
Whitehorse, Yukon
This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.
Baddeck, Nova Scotia
This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.
Ottawa, Ontario
A sprawling Victorian farm that has been surrounded by a capital city is one of Canada's greatest treasures.
Welshpool, New Brunswick
A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Nunavut
Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.