Places Added by Alan Newman

A museum in the form of Elizabethan house dressed as its 17th century iteration was used as sets for the 2009 Wuthering Heights TV series and as the home of the leader of the Gupowder Plot.

The man-made mound once voted the best landmark in the UK.

A beloved family of panda sculptures named after memories of the city's past.

This subterranean chapel is said to be where the Holy Family sought refuge before fleeing to Egypt.

This isolated village has Hollywood fame and a church with underground structures that date to the pre-Christian period.

A tour to spot Scotland's once-vanished birds of prey.

The highest station on the highest adhesion railway in the British Isles.

This fantastical faceless sculpture in Spain is on the grandest scale.

From a distance it looks like a real castle, but up close everything is slightly too small.

This massive and complex stone tower is a great example of the many pre-historic nuraghes on the island.

An 18th-century bell honors a manager who advocated for mineworkers.

A reminder of a long-gone community and way of life on the River Tyne.

A bronze sculpture immortalizes a historic 1936, 26-day-long march for economic relief.

For two decades in the 13th century, the papacy operated from this palace in central Italy, which served as the site of the first—and longest—papal election conclave in history.

This 11th-century fortress is now the seat of Aragon’s state legislature.

Said to be the largest glass cone ever built

Birthplace of the "Father of the Railways"

Claimed to be the worlds oldest example of a through arch bridge and a possible model for the iconic one across Sydney Harbour.

After playing in this house and its gardens as a child, J.M. Barrie credited it for helping inspire the story of Peter Pan.

Northumberland has no natural deposits of chalk amongst its surface geology but The Spechells form an area of chalk grassland created from a waste tip generated from the industrial activity of the area during WW2.

A remnant of the Mulberry Harbour from the Normandy landings of 1944 is still in use, miles from the beach.

An example of Victorian philanthropy still in use for its original purpose

Reputedly, this WW2 bomber airfield near Newark was built in error and never used operationally but, long after it closed, a strategic nuclear bomber landed here.

This decaying, grandiose tweed mill once housed the Norwegian Army in exile.