The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

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

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

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

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."