A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

Take afternoon tea in a 17th-century almshouse.

Though this bridge was originally built in the 12th century, only one of its 10 arches dates back that far.

A monument with a strange legend involving a horse's tongue.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

The former "holiday home" for monks at the Durham Cathedral.

Public art now takes pride of place on the site of one of County Durham's last deep coal mines.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

This now museum began supplying water to Sunderland during the mid-19th century.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

Home of the infamous Cauld Lad of Hylton and one of the inspirations behind "Alice" in Sunderland.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.