Ilkeston, England
The Ilkeston Giant Statue
A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.
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Ilkeston, England
A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
Bielefeld, Germany
This viaduct serves as a reminder of World War II.
Portsmouth, England
A picturesque garden with a surprising past.
Salisbury, England
The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.
Sheffield City Centre, England
This university building was once voted the ugliest building in the world.
Bishop Auckland, England
A length of abandoned railway track that was the real starting point of the worlds first steam hauled passenger railway.
Bishop Auckland, England
This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.
Shildon, England
The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.
London, England
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
West Auckland, England
This memorial depicts the unlikely team that won England the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy.
Escomb, England
This Anglo-Saxon church is over 1300 years old and was constructed with stone robbed from a Roman fort.
Bishop Auckland, England
An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.
Hartlepool, England
The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.
Bishop Auckland, England
Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.
Warwickshire, England
A retirement home for soldiers that can trace its history to the Elizabethan era and beyond.
Smardale, England
A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.
Lincoln, England
The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.
Coventry, England
This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
Coventry, England
The only museum in the world dedicated to preserving the life and work of American comedian and entertainer, Phil Silvers.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Castalla, Spain
This site is both a remarkable reminder of the town's mining history and a fantastic government blooper.
Alicante, Spain
This magnificent market stands as a poignant symbol of the suffering caused by the Spanish Civil War.