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Edwardian Gothic-style museum, featuring local and natural history displays and a ceramics collection.

A bronze cast statue of the remarkable war-time bear who lived and travelled with Polish soldiers, and ended his days living in the Scottish Border town of Duns, before retiring to Edinburgh Zoo.

A sculptural shelter that forms part of the Kielder Art Trail.

A statue commemorating David Stirling, the founder of the SAS.

A concrete crocodile on the banks of the River Wear in Washington, built as part of the new housing estate.

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

A private beach to the east of North Berwick with views to Bass Rock.

Square lighthouse overlooking the Solway Firth.

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.

Impressive Bronze Age stone circle, close to Wigtown.

A monument to two engineers who died during the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel expansion.

A cairn on the cusp of the Cheviot and right on the border of England And Scotland.

An obelisk erected to James Maitland Balfour, MP and Major Commandant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry.

A ruin of a folly shaped like a shepherd's hut on the Alnwick moors.

A three draw arch lime kiln in Otterburn.

Explore the Shelter Shells at Blyth Estuary, a creative coastal installation boosting marine life and biodiversity beneath the boardwalk near Commissioners Quay.

15th century well head in Durham that once supplied water to the area and gave Framwellgate its name, now preserved as a small stone structure.

Yeavering Bell hillfort near Wooler is the largest Iron Age settlement in Northumberland, with over 100 roundhouses and views across Glendale Valley.

Sculpture on the north shore of Kielder Water styled after the OS viewpoint symbol, offering a view of the landscape.

The ruins of an impressive townhouse built by John Erskine, the keeper of Stirling Castle.

A beautiful old bridge build in 1717 that crosses the River Dulnain in the pretty highland village of Carrbridge.

A ruined 15th century castle that was once the seat of the Clan Campbell.

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

A sculpture by Anna Gillespie reflecting the maritime heritage of Heysham, Lancashire.

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 castle on the south back of Castle Loch near Lockerbie.

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

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

A cool rural wicker man, keeping an eye on any bad lads on the border of Northumberland and Durham.

A standstone semi-circular escarpment located above Catcleugh Reservoir near Byrness.

A spectacular mausoleum for the British soldier Thomas Monteath Douglas.

A ruined castle on the Scottish side of the border built by the 1st Earl of Roxburghe.

A folly named after a princess overlooking bodies in a natural woodland burial site!

This is the trig point for Whitelyne Common (519m) near Kielder.

A playful sculpture showing the balancing act of settling a dispute.

Possible parametric art outside Hartlepool College of Further Education.

A 60 foot tall landmark maypole on the village green in Ovington, County Durham with an echo of a maypole sculpture in its shadow.

A Church near St Patrick's Chapel, with a number of Viking artefacts in its grounds and within the Church itself.

Public art of a brick boat which was created by locals and is also a lovely rockery.

Attractive murals back to back on a brick wall in a former cemetery now a small park in Durham.

An RSPB Nature Reserve in Dumfries and Galloway, comprising Ancient Woodland, Rivers, Moorland, Grassland and Scrub habitats.

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

A subtle stone sculpture hidden in a dry stone wall in the middle of the Galloway Forest Park.

Howk Bobbin Mill is a ruined 19th century mill, it is hidden away surrounded by trees with the River Caldew running alongside it and the mystical fairy pools nearby.

A cairn up near Yeavering Bell at the northern end of the Cheviots which has roots in local folklore.

A cast iron book sculpture a dedicated to the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

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

11th century church close to Brough Castle.

A three dimensional map of Scotland complete with Highlands and islands and a viewing platform in the grounds of The Barony Hotel near Peebles.

A paradisal place of worship dating to the Victorian age.

An artwork by Colin Wilbourn that forms part of the Art and Architecture Trail at Kielder Water.

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

Doocot built in the 16th century, which once held over 500 birds.

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

A big cairn sitting on the end of Comb Fell.

An obelisk commerating playwright and poet James Thomson, who also penned the words to Rule, Britannia.

A lightweight set of faux stone statues of a knight and handmaiden in The Baa pub beer garden.

Ruins of a medieval parish church in Gullane, East Lothian, dating from the 12th century and abandoned in 1612 due to blown sand making it unusable.

The grave of celebrated Daleswoman Hannah Hauxwell.

Neidpath Tunnel is a disused 550-metre railway tunnel near Peebles, built in 1864 on the Caledonian Railway’s Symington to Peebles branch line.

A shelter by Softroom Architects on the shore of Kielder Water.

A historic 14th century Tower with Doocot and Gardens in Prestonpans, East Lothian.

A pre-Norman boundary stone from 950AD marking the border between English Northumbria and the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde.

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 nature reserve which was an old mining area with remains of a monolithic winding engine house.

An obelisk on Whita Hill for John Malcolm, one of Langholm's most accomplished naval officers.

A well head commissioned by Lady Waterford that was once fed by a natural spring and linked to the Battle Of Flodden.

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

A neoclassical tower that stands on top of a bluff overlooking Portree harbour.

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

An unfinished castle built by Sir John Seton situated a few miles north-east of Haddington in East Lothian.

A type of roundhouse that was built during the Iron Age in Scotland and is located on the slopes of Cockburn Law.

Ruins of a 14th century chapel in the grounds of Low Friarside Farm.

An octagonal summerhouse on Down Law in Ancrum near Jedburgh built by Robert Rutherford who was a Baron of the Russian Empire.

A ruined bastle which may not have been a bastle after all.

A cool little lime kiln up the side of a hill in Slaggyford.

One of Scotland's oldest stone castles, built in the 1220s.

A human home owned by a sculptor who has carved avian abodes in stone for the sparrows sharing his home on Pier Road in Berwick.

A steel sculpture in the shape of a giant pickaxe in Jarrow, created as a memorial to the town’s mining heritage and the communities who worked in the pits.

A delightful and well preserved tower house near Newton Stewart.

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

A small square enclosure, which was used to keep the village's escaped animals in during the 1800s and was managed by the Osmotherley Pinder.

A dementia friendly garden within Coronation Park in Cramlington.

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

A large cairn with a henge and underground chamber near Bathgate in Scotland.

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

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.

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

A replica of an Iron Age Roundhouse giving a glimpse into life 2000 years ago.

Impressive 10m high sculpture on the bank of Black Loch.

A hidden away home to The Kerr clan of Lothian, Ferniehirst Castle is a rarely open gem nestled in the Borders.

A beacon on a hill just outside Richmond that was supposidly erected for Millennium celebrations.

Sandstone crag, popular with climbers, on the hills near Edlingham with a hidden surprise.

A 200 year old water tower in Aberlady that was used to provide water to Luffness hall.

A 3m tall standing stone in a field in East Lothian dated back to the Bronze Age.

A trio of curious follies located behind Sorrelsykes House near Aysgarth.

A lime kiln set in a lovely rolling Hobbiton area.

A giant metal sculpture in Gretna, which is home to thousands of 'lovelocks' left by the public declaring their union, and sealing in their commitment.

Moss Force is a scenic waterfall on Newlands Pass in the Lake District, near Buttermere, with cascades dropping in stages down the slopes of Robinson Fell.

A 17th Century Manor House with roots dating back to the 7th Century.