Once upon a time these giant concrete tanks were used by local fishermen to clean their wild-caught mussels.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

This former lifeboat house now used by a funeral service was the site of a 19th-century boating tragedy.

This hidden gem reveals the history of Britain's first police force.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

A recreation of pop art pioneer Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi's London studio.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.

This charming old building's loose connection with the Scottish Reformer is what saved it from demolition after it split apart.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A tribute to the women who quietly kept the local steelworks alive during both world wars.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

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

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

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

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