This great example of a Victorian museum claims to be the oldest purpose-built museum in the UK.

The experimental rail system which gave birth to both Toby the Tram Engine and a new system in the UK for authorisation of rural railways.

The old Workhouse in Ripon was the last resort for the poor of the district from 1834 until the birth of the British welfare state in the mid 20th century. It is now a poignant museum reminding us of the harshness of the Victorian poor law regime.

The Church of St Andrew in Aysgarth contains internal fittings taken from a nearby Abbey during the dissolution, including this fine, medieval rood screen

Part of a heritage railway which replicates the interior of a small town English railway station in the 1920's.

The most impressive falls in Wensleydale once produced power to weave the uniform of an Italian revolution.

This roundabout, outside an important UK garrison town, used to be the route of an important military railway and it is now commemorated with a magnificent locomotive sculpture

This former railway station is now an impressive cultural and retail centre and a magnet for railroad history fans

The memorial to this brutal battle between the English and the Scots has a surprisingly humble origin.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

A museum in the form of Elizabethan house dressed as its 17th century iteration was used as sets for the 2009 Wuthering Heights TV series and as the home of the leader of the Gupowder Plot.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

Mediaeval cross marking an old Roman ridgeway on the top of moors in the Peak District.

A church instrumental in the spreading of Christianity in England and the final resting place of hundreds of Saxons.

An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

A beloved family of panda sculptures named after memories of the city's past.

This fishing lake has become something of a graveyard for redundant river barges, including a historic WW2 example made from concrete

This stone throne invites adventurers to observe breathtaking views of the Peak District.

One of the tallest war memorials in the UK is known locally as Sir Arthur's wristwatch

An example of Victorian philanthropy still in use for its original purpose