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In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

In England, a barn-turned-wedding venue dates back to the 13th century.

This small crenelated building was built by a British aristocrat who supported the American Revolution and may have named it in memory of a pivotal battle.

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

This folly built to commemorate an aristocratic victory over Catholic rebellion plays tricks on the eye.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

A churchyard in Ardsley houses a memorial dedicated to the victims of England’s worst mining disaster.

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

In a quiet hamlet above Penistone, these village stocks are still standing.

This industrial museum is based on one of the oldest standing iron forges in the U.K.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

The collapse of the brand-new dam caused one of the worst floods in British history.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

A preserved 18th century steel factory.

This unique sculpture of a steelworker is hidden amid the trees of Sheffield.

This old Victorian bathhouse is fed by an ancient spring.

A poignant memorial to the 106 coal miners killed in three major accidents in Derbyshire.

This petite cutlery factory sits on the foundations of a defunct gasworks.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This small building nestled along the Dove River is seen by some as the birthplace of angling as a sport.