Whitby, England
Whitby Wishing Chair
Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.
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Whitby, England
Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.
London, England
Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.
Lincoln, England
Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.
Poundbury, England
Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.
Windsor, England
A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.
Derby, England
This Bronze Age boat was found buried remarkably intact in an English gravel pit.
Tissington, England
The tradition of using flowers to decorate wells is once again thriving in England.
Sheffield, England
This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.
Ravenscar, England
At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity.
Cromford, England
The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.
Weston-super-Mare, England
The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.
Sheffield, England
A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.
Retford, England
One of the earliest large-scale "hyper" roofs in the U.K. is now a derelict roadside attraction.
Bude, England
A quirky "castle" formerly belonging to a famous British inventor.
Coventry, England
For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.
Matlock Bath, England
A seaside town with no sea in sight.
Ashbourne, England
These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.
Helston, England
Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.
Darlington, England
A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.
Clovelly, England
Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.
Whitby, England
These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.
Castleton, England
Some of England's last cave dwellers lived and worked within this huge cave.
Whitby, England
This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.
Burton-on-Trent, England
The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.