This bronze statue stands throughout the year and illustrates an urgent message about the environment.

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.

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

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

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.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

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.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

The small bright red pillar survived the 1996 Manchester bombing virtually unscathed.

The construction of this bridge dates back to the 15th century.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

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

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

An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.

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

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

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

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

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