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A magnificent pineapple-topped folly located in Dunmore Park near Falkirk.

A dovecote or doocot as the Scots call it, next to Northfield house in East Lothian.

A small castellated house in Bedale that was used to house leeches which were sold to local doctors for bloodletting.

A fascinating jigsaw of a church built in the 12th & 13th centuries, restored in the 15th century and again in the 19th century.

Mural of the Fair Slayer By Smug.

Observation towers used during WW2 for ground attack training.

A rare and significant medieval ruin, which served as the first school in Alnwick.

A pedestrian and cycle bridge that forms the shape of the mathematical symbol for infinity.

A new social history museum adjacent to a grand Georgian manor house telling the history of the area.

The tide stone was a 1783 stone marker denoting the tidal limit of the river Tyne before it moved further upstream to Wylam.

A former Royal Air Force site with lots of planes and ghosts.

When art meets mathematics you get a geometric granite sculpture.

A beautiful beach with strange geology and fossils.

A stunning double headed crag on the north east banks of Hedgehope Hill.

A beautifully positioned ruinous sandstone castle, overlooking the Firth of Fourth in East Wemyss, near Kirkaldy in Scotland.

A Corten Steel sculpture by Ray Lonsdale to honour the Herring Girls.

A stone artwork by John Maine that forms part of the Kielder Forest Art and Architecture Trail.

Located on the site of an ancient village cross at Longhoughton, it was on the route of the pilgrimage from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to Durham.

A burial vault for John Pringle, built from the rubble of a hospital, church and friary known as The House of the Holy Trinity, with great views out over Southern Scotland.

Ruins of a 9th century chapel, with graves cut directly into the nearby rocks.

The Glassonby Stone Circle, was the site of a 1900s excavation of remains of burnt bones, a Bronze Age collared urn and a mysterious blue faience bead.

An obelisk and monument dedicated the all of the Wigtown Martyrs.

An old 18th century windmill part of Birney Hill farm.

A huge chunk of rock sitting on the north east banks of Hedgehope Hill overlooking the Harthope Valley.

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

A unique fortress style house in Newcastle's West End that was won as a prize in a 1920's raffle.

A tower constructed in 1897 to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in Dallowgill, North Yorkshire.

A castle on the banks of Loch Doon in East Ayrshire thought to have been built by Robert the Bruce.

A wishing well in a water meadow near Wooler where bent pins were dropped for wishes.

A precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

17 street murals around Spennymoor and a case of ‘there is more to these than meets the eye’.

War Memorial from 1921 by the A68 in Rochester, Northumberland

A museum of the culture and artifacts of the town and surrounds.

Monument to Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, built in 1875.

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

A bronze cast blackfaced ram atop the pink corncockle stone blocks of a Victorian drinking fountain in Moffat.

A real Iron Ore mine which has now been converted into a museum.

One of a handful of hearse houses left in the UK with a little 'fun for free' museum.

A sculpture dedicated to the Dalry Covenanter's in St John's Town of Dalry, Dumfries & Galloway.

A memorial obelisk on Lanton Hill erected by Alexander Davison in memory of his brother, John Davison.

A sculpture at the source of the River Rede of a feral Northumberland goat, living its leaping life just above the peeping eye of Catcleugh Reservoir.

RSPB Reserve that is home to the largest reed bed in the north west of England.

A Grade II, early 19th century dovecote with the square tower loosely modelled on the tower of The Church of St Andrew in Hartburn.

The Calton Hill trig point sits on a hill (103m) in the heart of Edinburgh City Centre.

A space age rocket looking communication mast, bound for Mars from the pines of Henshaw Common!

A spectacular medieval ruin, in Muggleswick near Consett, built during the mid 1200s which was home to a farm, a chapel, a grange and a dairy, which belonged to the Prior of Durham.

A 16th Century Church with links to the now demolished Wetheral Priory.

An ancient sea stack near Oban with links to Scottish folklore.

The jaw bones of a whale as a reminder of the whaling industry of Whitby.

A grand library ornamented in wood dating to the 17th century with the scent of bibliosmia and a museum with skulls, weapons, and finds from local excavations.

Seven stainless steel collier brigs, setting sail in the remains of an old dry dock by the river in South Shields.

The Parish Church of Wigtown.

Tower set in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside, part of an old parish church.

A driftwood sculpture of a boat situated on the banks of the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

A stunning little waterfall secluded on the Otterburn Ranges near Featherwood.

The UK's first, permanent offshore sculpture by Sean Henry

The Arthur's Seat trig point sits on a hill (251m) in Edinburgh.

A six foot high stone marking the site of the battle of Moss Raploch, where Robert the Bruce is rumoured to have rested.

The remains of a gatehouse that lead to an Augustinian Priory Church.

A pint sized place of worship overlooking the Tyne Valley and the baptismal church of British landscape artist John Martin.

A small Islet in Loch Lomond that is a nature reserve and part of the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve.

An unusual two story concrete walkway that runs around the perimeter of Torness Nuclear Power Station and includes a fenced off pier.

Fields as far as the eye can see of firework bright Dahlia and Chrysanthemums which burst into bloom every autumn, close to Hadrian's Wall.

The remains of St Andrew's Kirk, dating from around the 1100s and with links to the North Berwick Witch Trials.

A Church without parish dedicated to the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket

Remains of a Late Neolithic stone circle on Burley Moor.

A Grade II listed Water Tower in Teesside built by Sir Hugh Bell in 1915 to supply water to Ingleby Arncliffe and Rounton villages which houses some unexpected things within.

St Andrew’s Old Church in Upleatham is a small historic church in North Yorkshire, known for its Norman architecture and quiet, rural setting.

A 17th-century packhorse bridge over the River Esk that comes with it's own love story!

A hidden gorge, which contains mysterious carvings and has long been associated with pagan rituals.

The highest crag in Northumberland sitting on Mid Hill on the Cheviot Summit.

Quirky water mill maintained by National Trust for Scotland.

A former showroom for horses, carriages and bicycles, later a car showroom and now an office space which retains many original features including the old wooden horse ramp.

A Grade II Listed Ancient waymarker on an old trading route along the County Durham and North Yorkshire border.

Twice life size Corten Steel figures by Ray Lonsdale along the River Wear.

Acoustic sound mirror built in 1916 to detect German airships during WW1.

Ruined lime kilns on the coastal path near Budle Bay.

A sculpture dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Montagu View Pit Disaster.

An RSPB reserve set on the River Cree Estuary forming a mosaic of salt marsh, mud flat, lake and reed beds.

A sandstone cave that is accessible from one of the narrow streets of Pittenweem, linked to both smugglers and St Fillan, a 7th century missionary.

A square towered dovecote, built in the 18th century of brick, with stepped cogged cornicing at the eaves and a pyramidal pan tiled roof.

A tumble down 16th century pele tower in the Borders, built with the biggest cyclopean stones, and only sheep for neighbours.

A towering Obelisk on Murrayshall Hill near Scone dedicated to Thomas Graham of Balgowan.

The remains of one of the first artillery defence castles, overlooking the Firth of Fourth near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

A hearse house hidden in the beautiful Allen Valley which was funded through the philanthropy of local travelling tea seller, Isaac Holden.

An iron age hillfort on top of Sinkside Hill in the north west of the Cheviots.

A sculpture by Nigel Boonham to commemorate the bold boys of West Auckland, a team made up of coal miners, who won the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy competition in Turin in 1909.

Spire which once linked two chapels in Amble East Cemetery.

A great set of waterfalls on the Black Water River next to Silverbridge just north of Garve near Dingwall in Scotland.

An art gallery located in the former Christ Church in Hartlepool.

A castle on the south back of Castle Loch near Lockerbie.

A memorial fountain dedicated to JJ Roddam, built by the people of Stanhope to commemorate his contribution to the community.

A Motte and Bailey Castle thought to date from the 11th century.

The coke ovens are rare remnants of Durham's coal industry, showcasing early coke production methods before their decline by 1880.​

Not one, but two stone circles a short walk from each other next to the River Esk.

Beautiful mosaic of limestone pavement, grassland and ancient woodland.

A hidden waterfall in a mysterious gorge carved with geological formations in the Finnich Glen.

A lighthouse and visitors centre which sits at the end of the Mull of Galloway peninsula with incredible views and wildlife.

The remains of a tower that was part of a 15th century manor house.

An old measuring device in the heart of the village of Stenton.