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

A harrowing sculpture commemorates the four people shot down during the workers strike of 1842.

A vibrant portrait celebrates the actress in her hometown.

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

A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

This unique sculptural clock transforms into a periscope every hour.

The artwork immortalizes one of 20th-century Ireland's leading creatives.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

The second-longest pier in the U.K. stretches a whole kilometer into the Irish Sea.

One of these two land speed record-breaking vehicles went so fast it shattered the sound barrier.

A replica memorializes the site where women were punished after the last witchcraft trial in Ireland.

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

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.

This unique, full-sized copy of the Bayeux Tapestry sports a few modern additions, including underwear.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

A giant gleaming memorial named for a coal miner who gave his life to the pits.

A monument to the 70s rock icon stands on the road into this small Scottish town.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.