Places Added by Alan Newman

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

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

When built, the technology here made Souter the most advanced lighthouse in the world but, nowadays, it is a tourist attraction and a (reputedly) haunted vacation spot

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

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

A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world

This town has two officially recognised troglodyte villages

This former railway station is now an impressive cultural and retail centre and a magnet for railroad history fans

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

The ruins of a hilltop castle which is haunted by the ghosts of a child and his nanny

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

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

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

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

A lesser-known World Heritage Site with an amazing Byzantine style mosaic of Jesus on the semi-dome of the apse

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

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

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

A WW2 communications centre for Churchill's secret army

Magnificent statue which commemorates a local girl who either starved or fell to her death whilst waiting for her lost love or her lost child, depending on which legend you believe

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

A first-century Roman colony and a magnificent Roman bridge

The route and destination of the coal trains pulled by the famous "Puffing Billy" and its twin, the "Wylam Dilly"

The world's largest Punic necropolis