Sheffield, England
Water Sculptures of Sheaf Square
An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.
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Sheffield, England
An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.
Sheffield, England
This commercial and retail center was crafted from walled military barracks.
Ripponden, England
The house in the middle of the motorway.
Halifax, England
This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.
Halifax, England
This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.
Thurgoland, England
A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.
Holmfirth, England
Holmfirth, England
Collapsed television tower finds new life as a control tower for boat races.
Penistone, England
This century-old, single-screen cinema still puts a 1937 Compton organ to good use.
Emley, England
The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.
Denby Dale, England
A giant dish used in this village's long tradition of baking absurdly large meat pies now serves as a flowerbed.
Nelson, England
This giant weaving shuttle celebrates Lancashire's importance during the Industrial Revolution.
Rawtenstall, England
This tower is all that remains of a 19th-century schoolhouse that became a famous music venue before its destruction.
Menston, England
Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Swansea, Wales
Evans's funeral had one of the largest attendances of any funeral in the history of Wales.
Clevedon, England
Constructed from recycled wrought iron railroad tracks, it's been described as the most beautiful seaside pier in England.
Wakefield, England
Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.
Bristol, England
A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.
Kilpeck, England
Detailed sandstone carvings show an array of symbolism and adorable animals.
Littledean, England
A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.
Hove, England
This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.