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Alfred Denny Museum

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

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Toad's Mouth

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

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Lodge Moor POW Camp Ruins

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

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Paternoster Lift at the Arts Tower

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

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Cobweb Bridge

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

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Water Sculptures of Sheaf Square

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

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Women of Steel

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

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Bessemer Converter at Kelham Island Industrial Museum

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

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Henderson's Relish

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Henderson's Relish

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.

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