Alar del Rey, Spain
The Canal de Castilla
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
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Alar del Rey, Spain
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
Nether Edge, England
A challenge course around 6 of the surviving sewer gas destructor lamps in south and west Sheffield
Castle Douglas, Scotland
This woven willow statue represents a popular local breed of beef cattle in SW Scotland
Samothraki, Greece
This unusual geological formation on the coast of Samothraki has an interesting, if unlikely, story about how it was formed
Cagliari, Italy
During the reconstruction of this ancient church, the multiple layers of burials that it held were revealed to archaeologists
South Shields, England
The statue of a remarkable woman placed on a historic hillside with an almost forgotten story
Santa Giusta, Italy
The third largest lagoon in Sardinia is the historic home of the Is Fassõis reed boats
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The route and destination of the coal trains pulled by the famous "Puffing Billy" and its twin, the "Wylam Dilly"
Belfast, Northern Ireland
A towering steel-and-bronze figure whose playful nickname outshines its official message of hope
Newark, England
This fishing lake has become something of a graveyard for redundant river barges, including a historic WW2 example made from concrete
Shrewley, England
This late 18th century canal tunnel has an unusual feature to improve the life of the draught horses
Worksop, England
The legacy of a social experiment of the 1930s funded by Andrew Carnegie's Charity is a dispersed group of 40 houses of identical original design dotted across 400 acres of Derbyshire agricultural land
Messina, Italy
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
Motta d'Affermo, Italy
A vast open air art museum on the north coast of Sicily
Keadby, England
This small north Lincolnshire village is blessed with examples of three different types of moveable bridge
Busot, Spain
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
Retford, England
This 12th-century church is home to England's largest Phoebe Traquair murals
Falkirk, Scotland
An amazing house in a park in the middle of Falkirk
Cagliari, Italy
The world's largest Punic necropolis
Scarborough, England
These erosion formations on the wave cut platform have a natural explanation
Matlock, England
A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world
San Lucido, Italy
This ancient castle, built to defend against attacks by Turkish pirates, was the birthplace of a local revolutionary hero
Terracina, Italy
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
Leek, England
One of the tallest war memorials in the UK is known locally as Sir Arthur's wristwatch