Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

These stones mark 200 years of friendship between Britain and France following the Napoleonic Wars.

Overlooking the spot where the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower stands Devon's answer to the Colossus of Rhodes.

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

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

More than 500 years after his death, a medieval ruler's remains were found buried under a parking lot.

Since 1995, two red-painted metal figures have guarded the entrance to the Northern Ballet.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

The name of this suspended sculpture is Latin for "high horse," which is exactly what it is.

This sculpture celebrates a boules tournament and the link between Leeds and its twin city Lille.

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

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

The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.