The preserved left hand of a saint once known as "the Pearl of York."

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Students can borrow artwork from this gallery to display in their own residences.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

Building Men of War and Indiamen from Holland's Golden Age.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

It's forbidden to dig within this ancient Roman fort hidden beneath a playground.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.