Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

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

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

Austrian and Germans who died on British soil during World War I and II are buried here.

Parts of this former military training ground may have inspired parts of J.R.R. Tolkien's famous fantasy series.

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

These medieval carvings bear scars left by Parliamentarian troops during the English Civil War.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.