The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

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

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

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

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

A hunk of prehistoric lava rests amid the Gothic architecture of a campus quad.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

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

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

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

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The stoic structure boasts a whimsical set of stained glass art commemorating Lewis Carroll.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

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