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

A huge miner’s helmet and cap lamp hung on a peg rack created by Father and son Ray and Sam Lonsdale in homage to the area's mining heritage.

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

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.

Nine prehistoric caves containing Pictish carvings and Dovecots in East Wemyss, Kirkcaldy.

The UK's first local nature reserve, established in 1952.

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

A sculpture of the ingenious life saving lamp originally designed by George Stephenson, favoured by North East miners, sitting pretty opposite Lidl in Westmoor.

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.

Crackpot hall is an abandoned farm close to the Beldi Hill Lead Mine near Keld in the Yorkshire Dales.

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

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

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

A precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

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

A ruinous castle built on a mound that was occupied from the Middle Ages, near New Galloway. Parts of the 17th century castle still remain in the existing structure.

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

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

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

A sentry box that once housed AA patrolmen and then a telephone to aid you should your car breakdown.

A beautiful beach with strange geology and fossils.

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

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

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

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

The Parish Church of Wigtown.

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

Eight wooden sculptures inspired by Easter Island’s Moai heads in Scarborough.

The remains of a coal staithes for the Wearmouth Pit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Ruined lime kilns on the coastal path near Budle Bay.

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

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

Magical stone bridge tucked away in the west highlands.

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

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

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

Spectacular cave on the Isle of Staffa formed by basalt pillars

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

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

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.

Spire which once linked two chapels in Amble East Cemetery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A set of crags on the north east face of Hedgehope Hill standing at 404m above sea level.

A Medieval wayside cross.

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

A 15th Century Gatehouse to Wetheral Priory, which is all that remains of the complex following the Dissolution of the Monastaries.

Quirky water mill maintained by National Trust for Scotland.

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

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

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.

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

Ruined priory built in the 1100s, said to be home of one of Scotland's first Cristian communities.

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

A gas-fired beacon installed for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

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

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.

A memorial drinking fountain, dedicated to the memory of the 3rd Earl Ravensworth in Whittingham.

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

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

A medieval dovecote in the middle of a bunch of houses with a dove's eye view of the sea.

Monument built in 1897 by local banker John Stuart McCaig

An Iron Age hillfort sitting on top of Great Hetha in the College Valley.

A picturesque ruined Church that replaced St Andrew's Auld Kirk after it collapsed into the harbour.

Beautiful mosaic of limestone pavement, grassland and ancient woodland.

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

A grade II drainage portal with a rustic tally house which was used to explore and drain ground in Allendale for mining.

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

An Edwardian Baroque-styled multi-purpose building feature artworks.

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

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

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.

Explore the historic Bantling Lime Kilns near Consett – a striking remnant of County Durham’s industrial heritage, set along the scenic C2C cycle route.

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

Five silvery steel girders piercing the promontory at St Peter's in Sunderland and growing into the form of a cormorant taking to the sky.

A towering stone cross commemorating the life of The Venerable Bede, on Roker seafront.

A big cairn sitting on the end of Comb Fell.

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

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

A site specific art installation designed by sculptor William Pye for Seaham Hall.