For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

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

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

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

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

A giant piece of cutlery designed to remind us about the origins of our food.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

This sculpture commemorates a naturalist and an illustrator whose work was a forerunner to modern field guides.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

A famous pilgrimage site that remains hidden in the midst of a city.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

Take afternoon tea in a 17th-century almshouse.

An unusual stone chair can be found on the banks of the River Wear, not far from Durham Cathedral.

A rather grand, but tiny, folly on the banks of the River Wear associated with a Polish count.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

This sandstone tree trunk is a relic from a long-past era when England had a more tropical climate.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.