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Skulls in the Manchester Museum

Manchester, England

Manchester Museum

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A Blue John seam.

Hope Valley, England

Blue John Cavern

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The Riley Graves

Eyam, England

Eyam Plague Village Museum

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Hall Hill Troughs.

Eyam, England

Hall Hill Troughs

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

The Toad.

England

Toad's Mouth

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

The South Front and the South Lawn with the Seahorse Fountain. The exterior steps are a 19th century replacement for the original horseshoe shaped steps. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bakewell, England

Chatsworth House

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Ice cream on North Parade in Matlock Bath.

Matlock Bath, England

Matlock Bath

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

Stable block

Wentworth, England

Wentworth Woodhouse

The UK's largest private house was the subject of a long-lasting political dispute.

Gatehouse of General Cemetery, Sheffield.

Sheffield, England

Sheffield General Cemetery

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

Bessemer Converter at Kelham Island Industrial Museum

Sheffield, England

Bessemer Converter at Kelham Island Industrial Museum

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

Women of Steel.

Sheffield, England

Women of Steel

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

The Green Police Box

Sheffield, England

The Green Police Box

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

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Sheffield, England

The Steelworker Mural

This magnificent mural was created with over 30,000 colored bricks.

Cutting Edge.

Sheffield, England

Water Sculptures of Sheaf Square

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

Hoober Stand.

Wentworth, England

Hoober Stand

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

The Old Queens Head

Sheffield, England

The Old Queens Head

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

Keppel's Column, named after Admiral Augustus Keppel.

Rotherham, England

Keppel's Column

An oddly shaped tower built to mark the acquittal of Admiral Keppel in a controversial 1770s case.

The bridge chapel at Rotherham.

Rotherham, England

The Chapel of Our Lady

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

Whiston Manorial Barn

Whiston, England

Whiston Manorial Barn

In England, a barn-turned-wedding venue dates back to the 13th century.

The High Bridge and Glory Hole.

Lincoln, England

High Bridge

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

Chaplain's eye view

Lincoln, England

Prison Chapel at Lincoln Castle

Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.

Roche Abbey Ruins

Maltby, England

Roche Abbey Ruins

Legend has it the famous Robin Hood would attend mass at this 12th-century Cistercian abbey in Sherwood Forrest.

Museum Garage

Epworth, England

Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum

The world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses.

Earlier days in use as a resteraunt.

Retford, England

1960s Hyperbolic Paraboloid Gas Station Canopy

One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.

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