Canons House and Grounds Audio Trail

This trail was created by Digital Drama CIC and local volunteers, as part of the Canons House & Grounds National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery Community Fund project.  

Bangkok Airplane Graveyard

Discover Bangkok Airplane Graveyard in Bangkok, Thailand: Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

House of Opium

Discover House of Opium in Wiang, Thailand: A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

Big Buddha Temple

Discover Wat Phra Yai (Big Buddha Temple) in Ko Samui, Thailand: A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

Erawan Shrine

Discover Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand: A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Wat Tha Ka Rong

Situated on the banks of the Chao Phraya river away from the tourist center of Ayutthaya, Wat Tha Ka Rong, aka The Temple of the Blackbird or the Monastery of the Landing of the Crying Crow, is an unexpected novelty away from the main city center. Forme…

Amulet Market

Discover Amulet Market in Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Streghi e luoghi della paura del comune di Sillano Giuncugnano

The Fairyfolk (or ‘witches’ as we have translated them in the following stories) are groups of men and women who meet up at night to dance in clearings around a tree, or to weave long processions along the valleys. They are localised to the …

FANCIFUL TALES ALONG THE “VIA DEL VOLTO SANTO”

We begin with the warden snake of Castellarino di Regnano and we will close with the flying snake of Sillicagnana, passing through the dragon  of Gragnana and the protecting  “biscio” ( nonpoisonous snake) of the White Blackbird of…

Play Shoreline Monument

Discover Play Shoreline Monument in Gothenburg, Sweden: Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

Whiskey on the Rocks

Discover Whiskey on the Rocks in Karlskrona Ö, Sweden: A plaque on this tiny Swedish island commemorates an unusual Cold War standoff of Soviet submarine intrigue.

Sverre of Norway Stone

Discover Sverre of Norway Stone in Munkedal, Sweden: Many historians today consider Sverre as Norway's greatest king of all time. .

Dragon Gate

Discover Dragon Gate in Älvkarleby S, Sweden: Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

Giant Wooden Bear of Sveg

Discover Giant Wooden Bear of Sveg in Sveg, Sweden: This massive Trojan ursine was built to be a new tourist symbol for a small Swedish town.

Gislövshammar

Discover Gislövshammar in Gislövshammar, Sweden: These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

Republic of Önneköp

Discover Republic of Önneköp in Önneköp, Sweden: This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee.".

Pyramid of Stjärneborg

Discover Pyramid of Stjärneborg in Aneby C, Sweden: This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

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