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Spon Street

Coventry, England

Spon Street

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom Clock

Coventry, England

Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom Clock

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

Old Council Chamber in the guildhall.

Coventry, England

St. Mary's Guildhall

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Scala Cinema.

Ilkeston, England

Scala Cinema

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

Inside the old cathedral.

Coventry, England

Coventry Cathedral Ruins

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Three stories of eccentricity

Nottingham, England

Watson Fothergill's Office

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

View showing precariously narrow base

Stapleford, England

The Hemlock Stone

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

The causeway part of the bridge over the floodplain and marshes

Derby, England

Swarkestone Bridge

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem0115 947 3171

Nottingham, England

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Bradgate House.

Newtown Linford, England

Bradgate House

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A gas powered projector.

Leicester, England

National Gas Museum

The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.

Cape Agulhas.

L'Agulhas, South Africa

Cape Agulhas Marker

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

Alan Turing Memorial

Manchester, England

Alan Turing Memorial

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

Bee

Manchester, England

The Manchester Bee

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Historic Reading Room

Manchester, England

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Families can get up close and personal with the endangered animals.

Stoke-on-Trent, England

Trentham Monkey Forest

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

The Iron Bridge

Ironbridge, England

The Iron Bridge

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

It moves!

Stretford, England

The Barton Swing Aqueduct

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

Mow Cop Castle

Mow Cop, England

Mow Cop Castle

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

High Tide Organ
Permanently Closed

Blackpool, England

High Tide Organ

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

Orrery at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

Macclesfield, England

Orrery at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

The Blue Lake.
Permanently Closed

Fairbourne, Wales

The Blue Lake

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Knife Angel.

Morda, England

Knife Angel

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

The entrance to Strawberry Field in 2021

Liverpool, England

Strawberry Field

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

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