Cool and Unusual Things to Do in West Yorkshire - Atlas Obscura

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West Yorkshire, England

St. Aidan's BE1150 Dragline

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

West Yorkshire, England

Huddersfield Sailing Club Race Control Tower

Collapsed television tower finds new life as a control tower for boat races.

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Bradford, England

Colour Experience Museum

A museum devoted to the science of color.

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Bingley, England

Cottingley Beck

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

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Menston, England

High Royds Hospital

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

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Halifax, England

Piece Hall

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

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Lawnswood Cemetery

This Victorian graveyard in Leeds is a macabre collection of beautiful tombs and memorials.

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Atlas Obscura Trips

Folklore and Magic of Southern England

Nov 2—Nov 7, 2019

Mythical castles and ancient witchcraft, ecological biomes and fairy-tale forests, sea tractors and flaming tar barrels—all this awaits you on our one-of-a-kind exploration of southern England's historic haunts and eccentric traditions.

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Elsie Wright photographed her cousin, Frances Griffths, surrounded by fairies in July 1917.

For Sale: Legendary Photographic 'Proof' of Fairies and Gnomes

In 1917, two young girls with a camera pranked the world.

by Jessica Leigh Hester

September 28, 2018