One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

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

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

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.

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

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

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

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.