This small collection of rare books was uniquely locked up for safe keeping.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

This sculpture honors a long-beloved English comic strip in the main character's hometown.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

This abandoned lock-up was saved because of its connection to a local football team.

This stone once marked the boundaries of Liverpool's medieval markets.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.