Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

This whimsical public art installation is a unique homage to Liverpool's industrial heritage.

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

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

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

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

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

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

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

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.

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.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

This stone once marked the boundaries of Liverpool's medieval markets.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

An open-air sculpture museum in a park in Alcorcón.

Poet Antonio Machado's former residence offers the quintessential Castilian lifestyle of the provincial towns in the early 20th century.

Hidden underground, a remarkable 10th-century bath complex survives virtually unaltered.