A seaside town with no sea in sight.

The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

This industrial gem was one of the earliest examples of a metal-framed building.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

One of the first canal boat-lift inclines ever created.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

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

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

On moonless nights, it's said that you can still hear the church bell of a village that was swept out of the dunes and lost to the rising sea.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

The second smallest castle keep in England.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

The house in the middle of the motorway.

This 20th-century replica of a 13th-century castle has itself fallen into ruin.

Everyone's favorite clay duo immortalized in bronze.