This statue includes small details that highlight a city of "firsts."

Since 2017, the remains of Stretford's industrial past have been occupied by a collection of gnomes.

The longest sculpture trail in the United Kingdom.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.