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Sculpture inside Meadow Mill.

Greenfield, Wales

Greenfield Valley Heritage Park

This park is home to a collection of important industrial and religious sites.

Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chamber

Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales

Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chambers

Neolithic burial chambers hidden beside a village school.

The well.

Beaumaris, Wales

St Seiroil's Well

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

Old Nick the Swansea Devil

Swansea, Wales

Swansea Devil

A turn-of-the-century prophecy comes true when a mischievous wooden Devil watches the neighboring church burn to the ground

Aneurin Bevan Memorial Stones.

Blaenau Gwent, Wales

Aneurin Bevan Memorial Stones

A memorial to the British politician who spearheaded the National Health Service.

Castell Aberlleiniog

Llangoed, Wales

Castell Aberlleiniog

A little-known castle set in a nature reserve.

Preserved section of old viaduct.

Llanelli, Wales

Loughor Viaduct

A section of a historic wooden trestle viaduct is preserved next to the railway line it once carried.

Burry Port plaque

Llanelli, Wales

The Great Welsh Amelia Earhart Controversy

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

What remains of the cloister.

Llantysilio, Wales

Valle Crucis Abbey

This ancient abbey now lies in majestic ruin behind a caravan park.

The lighthouse being seen farther by the beach.

Talacre, Wales

Point of Ayr Lighthouse

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Castle on the hill.

Denbighshire, Wales

Castell Dinas Bran

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

Red kites at Gigrin Farm

Rhayader, Wales

Gigrin Farm Red Kite Feeding Station

A Welsh sheep farm provides daily (non-sheep) meals to red kites, producing dazzling displays of aerial acrobatics.

The vintage Speedway.

Kilgetty, Wales

Folly Farm

Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.

Tower of the Ecliptic Observatory

Swansea, Wales

Tower of the Ecliptic Observatory

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

The grave of Gelert, just outside of the village of Beddgelert in northwest Wales.

Caernarfon, Wales

Gelert's Grave

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

Dead Man's Alley.

Cardiff, Wales

Dead Man's Alley

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

Ash Dome

Gwynedd, Wales

Ash Dome

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

Point of view

Cardiff, Wales

Animal Wall at Cardiff Castle

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

Sol Cinema

Aberystwyth, Wales

Sol Cinema

The world's smallest movie theater runs on solar power—an attraction in itself.

Sultan the Pit Pony.

Caerphilly, Wales

Sultan the Pit Pony

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

The train station.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Pentre Ifan

Crymych, Wales

Pentre Ifan

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

An unusually large Roman Bath with a curved side.

Sliema, Malta

Roman Baths of Sliema

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

Ali El Hendy has a stunning glass ceiling.

Alexandria, Egypt

Ali El Hendy Coffeehouse

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

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