A surreal paleontological sculpture garden pays homage to a fading industry.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

The world's oldest railway bridge in continuous use.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The fossilized trunk of a tree that grew around 320 million years ago.

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

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

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

This sculpture made up of 22 bulbous bronze figures reminds locals of massive Weeble Woobles.

This now museum began supplying water to Sunderland during the mid-19th century.

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

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

A tile mosaic displaying a saying from the prophet Muhammad presents the mission of Durham University's Oriental Museum.

Home of the infamous Cauld Lad of Hylton and one of the inspirations behind "Alice" in Sunderland.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

According to local legends, a monstrous worm once wrapped itself around this hill by the River Wear.

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

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.