Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

The longest cutting on the M62 contains some surprises—though it's best to leave the motorway to appreciate them.

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

This building's name and a plaque are all that's left of what was probably the most important nightclub of the Madchester music scene.

The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A unique configuration of blown glass can be found inside this hotel lobby.

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

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

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

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

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

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.

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