The tallest freestanding structure in the United Kingdom.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The Last Home of an Executed King.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.