Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

This enormous sculpture honors an English town's engineering and industrial heritage

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

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

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

Derelict chemical plant on the North Sea is a beautiful industrial ruin.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England.

Take afternoon tea in a 17th-century almshouse.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.