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This late 18th century canal tunnel has an unusual feature to improve the life of the draught horses

A challenge course around 6 of the surviving sewer gas destructor lamps in south and west Sheffield

The last refuge of the Republican Government before the end of the Spanish Civil War

This roundabout, outside an important UK garrison town, used to be the route of an important military railway and it is now commemorated with a magnificent locomotive sculpture

The statue of a remarkable woman placed on a historic hillside with an almost forgotten story

A vast open air art museum on the north coast of Sicily

This old fortification was converted to an "orphanage" in the 1940s, but now is a derelict and reputedly haunted ruin, resisting attempts to reuse it

Painting of this dam or weir seems to be a tradition

A WW2 communications centre for Churchill's secret army

A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world

The remaining public face of the factory which made many of Britain's red letterboxes and iconic red telephone call boxes

Although controlled by the Santuario, the Campanile is a separate and later structure which offers great views of Pompei and Vesuvius

This beautiful early 20th-century military barracks now has numerous more peaceful uses

Downham Market, Norfolk, is called Gingerbread Town because of its distinctive architecture. Do not confuse it with Market Drayton in Shropshire, which is actually famous for its manufacturing of gingerbread

Within this ancient town, these canals provide a Venice-like ambiance, but outside the town they still play an important drainage role, and in WW2 they were used in an attempt at biological warfare

In memory of a courageous Scottish missionary who was murdered in Auschwitz for helping Jewish girls

The place where the Spanish 2nd Republic, essentially, came to an end

This woven willow statue represents a popular local breed of beef cattle in SW Scotland