The List
Compiled by Simon Heptinstall
Opposite the chip shop in Dorchester High Street is one of the greatest treasures of the ancient world. The Tutankhamun Exhibition houses a full-sized re-creation of the 3,500-year-old burial chambers of the Egyptian...
Just off the romantically-named H5 road through this grid-patterned city is a little piece of England that will always be... Nepal.
This is where monks and nuns built the first Buddhist pagoda in the west in...
Not as big as Gaza maybe, but the huge sandstone pyramid in Brightling, Sussex does dominate the tiny village of Brightling. Eccentric and also enormous local squire John 'Hippopotamus' Fuller built his own...
From the outside, the pebble-dashed English Martyrs Catholic Church looks like an anonymous part of modern suburbia among conifers in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex. But inside is a marvel of English eccentricity - a...
Among the trees at the southern end of Virginia Water Great Park is 100ft of Red Indian tribal ritual transplanted into the Home Counties. The huge totem pole was sculpted by one the greatest totem craftsmen Mungo...
Queen Victoria gave her nine children their own playhouse in the grounds of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight by shipping over a complete cottage from Switzerland. The nine kids played 'house' by cooking meals...
Nestled under the trees in the traditional English garden of a stately home in Surrey is a brightly painted wooden house that is as important a piece of Maori history as you’ll find by travelling to the other side...
It looks like a ancinet village nestling on the Italian coast, yet the strange folly was built this century on a peninsular in Cardigan Bay, North Wales. Architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis spent 50 years on his pet...
It looks like something transplanted from rural Scandanavia or backwoods New England but the wooden Norwegian Church is now the centrepiece of glitzy Cardiff Bay. It was originally built by Scandinavian sailors in 1867...
Avoid Florence’s queues - head instead for West Yorkshire. The 220ft clock tower of Bradford City Hall is a perfect copy of the Campanile bell tower of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The Victorian tower dominates the...
