These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

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

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

When built, the technology here made Souter the most advanced lighthouse in the world but, nowadays, it is a tourist attraction and a (reputedly) haunted vacation spot

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.

A statue dedicated to the story behind the founded of the city.

A statue commemorating the perilous journey made by the monks who delivered the body of St. Cuthbert.

A monument with a strange legend involving a horse's tongue.

Though this bridge was originally built in the 12th century, only one of its 10 arches dates back that far.

An unlikely link between a quiet English town and Sydney’s skyline.

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

A rather grand, but tiny, folly on the banks of the River Wear associated with a Polish count.

This memorial depicts the unlikely team that won England the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.

A 7th-century church in northeast England built using stones from a nearby Roman fort.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.