Whitby, England
Bombardment Garden
The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.
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Whitby, England
The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.
Goathland, England
Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.
Chesterfield, England
A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.
Nottingham, England
The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.
Sheffield, England
An interactive museum where visitors can play through the evolution of video games.
Sheffield, England
One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.
Manchester, England
A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Dublin, Ireland
The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Lastingham, England
Thought to be the oldest Norman crypt in the world.
Saltergate, England
Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.
England
Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".
Malton, England
This small figurine of a bear tells us a lot about the value of jewels and funerary practices in Roman Britannia.
Driffield, England
Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.
Split, Croatia
Split's smallest church, and one of its oldest, has been reconstructed inside the city's Roman walls.
Split, Croatia
The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.
Split, Croatia
When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.
Split, Croatia
A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.
Komiža, Croatia
An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.
Consett, England
These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.
Leeds, England
The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.
Leeds, England
One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.
Malton, England
A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.
Scarborough, England
Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.