Sueno's Stone is a  23 feet (7 metre) high Pictish sandstone block, intricately carved with unique imagery, dating from the mid 9th or early 10th century. The carvings include an elaborate battle scene, which may be a record of a real event. Sueno's Stone is encased in glass and located near a residential estate off the A96, possibly in its original position overlooking the floodplain of the Mosset Burn and River Findhorn.

Thorpeness began as a whimsical fantasy holiday seaside village, the brainchild of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie in the early part of the 20th century. There's a lot of mock Tudor architecture.  It is famous for its House in the Clouds. There is a boating lake, a pub, golf course, tennis courts, walking - a very quiet, gentile, kind of place.

To many people, Tower Hill is just an underground station on the District and Circle Lines, the station you get to visit the Tower of London, or walk from to get to the Dockland Light Railway. It is so much more than that.

Tower Hill was settled in the Bronze Age and was part of Roman London. There is a section of the 3rd century Roman Wall near the station.

It is also the location of the evocative Tower Hill Memorial, managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, commemorating the Merchant Navy and fishing fleet dead of the First and Second World Wars who have no grave but the sea.

Tower Hill was also one of several execution sites in London. In the south west corner is the site of the scaffold where an estimated 125 people were executed, mostly by beheading, between the 14th and 18th centuries. The last person executed there was Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, in 1747.

There are also good views of the Tower of London.

A WW1 airfield was built in 1917 amidst a golf course that was laid out in 1902, with a luxury hotel being built in 1906. The airfield was initially an aerial gunnery school for the Royal Flying Corps, later the Royal Air Force. The RAF left after the war, but RAF Turnberry was reinstated for WW2, this time for coastal command and torpedo training. The hotel was used as a hospital during both wars. The memorial, standing lonely in the golf course, commemorates aircrew from the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. Park by the entrance to Turnberry Lighthouse and walk across the golf course toward the lighthouse - where you will also find the remains of Robert the Bruce's castle and fabulous views across to Ailsa Craig.

There has been a church on the site of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin for about a thousand years, though little is known about the first church.  But, by the twelfth century, St Mary’s was at the heart of the growing university community.  Students and academics gathered in the church for special occasions, as well as for services, and academics (the Congregation) assembled in St Mary’s to vote on important matters. The oldest part of the church that remains is the tower, begun in the 1270s. The decorated spire was added in the early fourteenth century, is one of Oxford’s best-known landmarks.  It can be climbed by visitors for a small fee and offers great views (it is free to visit the church).  St Mary’s was the first home for the university’s books – though space rapidly ran out and a new library was built next door in the 1320s.  The Congregation met on the ground floor – this space is now the Vaults café.  In 1555, the trial of the Oxford Martyrs took place in St Mary’s; the place where they were burnt to death, in Broad Street, is marked with a cross.  The church is beautiful, with stunning stained glass and several notable memorials.  Possibly the most thought-provoking is a modern one, dedicated to 23 Oxford martyrs of the Reformation, Catholic and Protestant.