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Unusual Attractions in Sheffield

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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.

Sheffield, England

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.

Sheffield, England

Paternoster Lift

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

Sheffield, England

Cobweb Bridge

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

Sheffield, England

Sheffield General Cemetery

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

Sheffield, England

The Old Queens Head

Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.

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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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Henderson's Relish

Sheffield’s secret sauce has a cult following.

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