The last surviving roundhouse in the United Kingdom also plays host to a popular annual beer and music festival.

One of the town's most famous residents, holding one of his most famous creations.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

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

This house was home to a succession of park keepers for more than 90 years, but in all that time, it never had a toilet.

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

This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.

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

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.

This small record store was a favorite of Oasis's Noel and Liam Gallagher, who mentioned it in one of their early songs.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.