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Air photo showing both towers

Grimsby, England

Grimsby's other dock tower

The second of Grimsby's two towers represents a massive step change in hydraulic engineering in the 19th century.

Bangers and Cash

Pickering, England

Bangers and Cash

Mathewsons Auctions is the location for the popular British TV reality show, Bangers and Cash

Warning sign at the top of the hill now adorned with numerous  stickers

Pickering, England

Rosedale Chimney Bank Top

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.

The Glass Cone

Lemington, England

The Glass Cone

Said to be the largest glass cone ever built

George Stephenson's Birthplace

Wylam, England

George Stephenson's Birthplace

Birthplace of the "Father of the Railways"

Hagg Bank Bridge

Wylam, England

Hagg Bank Bridge

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

The Spetchells

England

The Spetchells

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.

Escomb Anglo- Saxon Church

Escomb, England

Escomb Anglo- Saxon Church

This Anglo-Saxon church is over 1300 years old and was constructed with stone robbed from a Roman fort.

Brusselton Incline, West slope. Here the remains of stone sleepers showing through the turf.

Bishop Auckland, England

Etherley and Brusselton Inclines

A length of abandoned railway track that was the real starting point of the worlds first steam hauled passenger railway.

Attractive flowstone deep in the cave

England

Great Douk Cave

Cyclists race on the track at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center (a.k.a. The Lehigh Valley Velodrome).

Breinigsville, Pennsylvania

The Valley Preferred Cycling Center

Track cycling for the masses in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.

The exterior of the Martin Guitar Factory in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Martin Guitar Factory

Explore nearly 200 years of guitar-making history

Easton’s Crayola Crayons and Markers Statues

Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton’s Crayola Crayons and Markers Statues

The birthplace of the beloved colorful crayons right in downtown Easton

Dorchester Heights Monument

Boston, Massachusetts

Dorchester Heights Monument

This marble tower commemorates the first victory of George Washington and a major turning point in the American Revolution

Red Auerbach Good Luck Plaque

Boston, Massachusetts

Red Auerbach Good Luck Plaque

Touch this shamrock-shaped plaque dedicated to the longtime coach of the Boston Celtics for good luck

Fook C. Kan Plaque

Boston, Massachusetts

Fook C. Kan Plaque

This plaque, dedicated to a fallen journeyman carpenter, is filled with errors and mystery

King Bhumibol Adulyadej Birthplace Marker

Cambridge, Massachusetts

King Bhumibol Adulyadej Birthplace Marker

This plaque commemorates the birthplace of the longest-ruling Thai monarch and the third longest of any sovereign state

'Glove Cycle'

Cambridge, Massachusetts

'Glove Cycle'

Dozens of bronze glove sculptures symbolizing loss and life decorate a busy Cambridge subway station

Royall House and Slave Quarters

Medford, Massachusetts

Royall House and Slave Quarters

The preserved historic home of the largest slave-owning family in Massachusetts serves as a memorial and a testament to the history of enslavement and abolition in the state

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers

New Braintree, Massachusetts

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers

Solitary stones tell the story of an early battle in one of colonial America’s most brutal and forgotten wars.

Tuam Railway Station

Tuam, Ireland

Tuam Railway Station

This disused railway station is a beautiful lost place with a Victorian foot bridge and some graffiti.

Waterford  Walls Festival

Waterford, Ireland

Waterford Walls Festival

The 10th version of this annual street art event is scheduled again for 2024.

Skerryvore Lighthouse

Hynish, Scotland

Lighthouse-Keepers’ Houses at Hynish

A pair of trousers or a dress was hoisted up the shore station’s flagstaff to announce the birth of a baby to the lighthouse keeper working offshore.

Pinnacles , Staple Island

Chathill, England

The Farne Islands

A small group of islands with a dramatic history.

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