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Clickimin Broch is a well-preserved prehistoric tower close to Lerwick on mainland Shetland. The broch was originally built on an island in a small loch and is approached by a stone causeway. Today the loch is much reduced in size due to drainage and the partially restored building is situated within a walled enclosure. Clickiman has several unusual features for a broch including a blockhouse, between the enclosure entrance and the door of the broch, as well as a stone slab with sculptured footprints. Clickimin Broch is maintained by Historic Scotland and is open to the public all year round and admission is free.

Blackness Castle is a 15th-century artillery fortress although strengthened during the 16th-century, near the village of Blackness on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. As the castle points into the Forth with a shape that is long and narrow, the castle has been referred to as “the ship that never sailed”.  The north and south towers are often named “stem” and “stern”, with the central tower called the “main mast”.

Mount Edgcumbe House is the former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, first built in the 1500s. Set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres Country Park.

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery was built in 1907-10 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. The Museum has collections of fine and decorative arts, natural history and human history.

Stembridge Tower Mill, the last remaining thatched windmill in England, dates from 1822 and in use until 1910. The windmill is managed by the National Trust and although you can see the outside has limited opening of the inside.

Bodowyr Burial Chamber is a Neolithic chambered tomb. The chamber has three upright stones about a metre high supporting a robust, wedge-shaped capstone. A large stone lying flat nearby on the western side may have been part of the structure. Access is by walking 100m across a often muddy field.

Innisidgen Lower and Upper Burial Chambers includes two Bronze Age communal burial cairns.

Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens. Explore a spectacular medieval castle, a Greek Revival villa and thirty acres of stunning Grade I gardens linking the two.