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

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.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

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

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

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

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

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

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

The largest timber structure in Europe.

The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.