Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

This atmospheric cavern on the hillside above picturesque Rydal Water is actually an old slate quarry

An attempted suicide made this cliff famous.

A major Buddhist temple, monastery and study centre in southern Scotland

The remains of the palace where both Nero and Caligula were born

The first British Commonwealth war cemetery established after the landings at Anzio in WW2.

The facade of this building only gives a hint of what is inside.

The first railway line to successfully use a steam powered locomotive

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.

Before this fine stone viaduct was built, trains ran across a rather wobbly wooden trestle, and the original abutments are still there.

Drive or walk through part of a former medieval monastery

A 19th century house built vertical steam engine.

This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.

The most amazing structure built for the 2008 Expo

Remains of the walls of the Roman city named for its founder

This much reformed Modernist building will be of interest to fans of contemporary architecture too.

This amazing cathedral was built on the site of the first Marian shrine in Spain and is important to Spanish speakers the world over

The load bearing parts of this historic 18th century canal aqueduct has largely been hidden from view by 20th century road construction.

One of several memorials to the dead of Spain's foreign legion on the Spanish mainland.

This little street seems to be the best place in Bocairent to get local and artisan food and drink.

This fascinating reservoir represented a dam in Afganistan in Guy Ritchie's movie, " The Covenant ".

After the Moriscos, the descendents of the former Muslim population, were expelled from Spain this empty village was re-populated by families of sausage makers from the island of Mallorca.