Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A towering steel-and-bronze figure whose playful nickname outshines its official message of hope

This tunnel was an amazing feat of engineering and an economic success, but the coal mine which it served closed after only 18 years of the tunnel's use, but in WW2 the tunnel was converted to an air raid shelter

This 12th-century church is home to England's largest Phoebe Traquair murals

These erosion formations on the wave cut platform have a natural explanation

These magnificent medieval carvings can be viewed up close in this amazing church

One of the tallest war memorials in the UK is known locally as Sir Arthur's wristwatch

The cathedral is not really remarkable except for the campanile with its astronomical clock and some amazing automatons which perform every day at noon

This ambitious 18th century project never achieved its aim as a means of navigation but remains an essential component of agriculture and water supply in central Spain

A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world

During the reconstruction of this ancient church, the multiple layers of burials that it held were revealed to archaeologists

The world's largest Punic necropolis

This magnificent tourist cave, with the highest ceiling of any in Spain, was once an anti-fascist arms dump and war factory and is now a concert venue

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

These two remaining restored marble fountains were part of a set of four which graced the corners of an important crossroads in Messina until the earthquake of 1908

People who drive past Bedworth on the A444 bypass often wonder about the origins of this tower

An artistic reminder of the historic importance of this town's trade with Hanseatic partners from the Baltic and the North Sea

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

A 140-year-old cemetery with some unique subterranean features

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

This town has two officially recognised troglodyte villages

The third largest lagoon in Sardinia is the historic home of the Is Fassõis reed boats

No mere mortal can resist...

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

A mysterious mountaintop temple infamous as the legendary home of the Tengu