A 17th-century building that once served as the town's courthouse and jail is now a thriving art center.

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

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

This former private hunting lodge is now the highest residential hotel in Scotland

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

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

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

The oldest subscription library in Britain was started by lead miners in southwest Scotland.

Though it looks like a golf ball teed up for a hit, this hilltop station is actually used to monitor air traffic.

This triangular castle was besieged at least four times and shows many of the scars of defeat

This Scottish tollhouse was a destination for clandestine marriages in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Thought to be the oldest Norman crypt in the world.

A small, but fascinating, museum recording rural and small town life with an emphasis on the North York Moors area

Claimed to be the steepest asphalt covered motor road in England and possibly the steepest in Great Britain leads to a historical landscape at the summit.

A museum showcasing the work of a self-taught painter and sculptor spanning four decades of output in seclusion.

Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.

This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

The statue of a remarkable woman placed on a historic hillside with an almost forgotten story

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

A memorial this now closed coal mine which once was the centre of life in the village which carried its name.

Said to be the best reconstruction of Roman remains in Britain

This former dry dock is now the home of a sculpture instalation depicting a fleet of tiny stainless steel sailing ships

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