West Baker (historical), United States. The town of Boron is unusual as it is located between the world's largest Borax mine, visible to the north, and one of the nation's largest rocket test areas, visible on the hill to the south.

West Baker (historical), United States. At a remote desert site six miles north of Kramer Junction is a former military base and Federal Prison Camp, with an active FAA radar facility.

Bellingham, United States. In 2005 a drug-smuggling tunnel was discovered by border officials, just a hundred yards east of the Lynden/Aldergrove Port of Entry. It connected a Quonset hut on 0 Avenue, on the Canadian side, to a house in the trees on the south side of Boundary Avenue, on the US side.

Cupheag (historical), United States. Some may call it a compound of follies, this is indeed a curious collection of unusual architecture amassed and built by the Boothe brothers, who lived at the site from the early 1900s to 1949.

Dublin, Ireland. My mother Cherry had a penchant for lying down beneath trees in our garden and in wild Wicklow.

Buell (historical), United States. Numerous land speed records have been achieved at Bonneville, on the vast and flat natural pavement of salt: the 300, 400, 500, and 600 mile per hour land speed barrier were all broken here over the years.

Stevenson, United States. Bonneville was the first of eight federal lock and dam structures built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, which are now the largest source of electricity on the continent.

Diocese of London, United Kingdom. Contemplating a wall plaque in Walthamstow, north-east London, to commemorate victims of a fatal bomb raid by the Luftwaffe in 1940 during the London Blitz.

Chester, United Kingdom. The original Chester Canal runs deep below the city centre in North West England, next to the Roman city walls. The canal was one of the first to be built in England in the 1770s and has had a chequered history whilst leaving its mark on the landscape.

Squeaky Springs (historical), United States. A partially-flooded trailer community with a few hundred homes, on the east shore of the Salton Sea, Bombay Beach is one of the lowest communities below sea level in the U.S.