The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

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

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

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

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

A tiny, hidden alleyway dedicated to the father of meteorology.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

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

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

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.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.