Other sights in Tyne and WearTyne and Wear, England

Antony Gormley's rust-red steel angel, 20 metres tall with a 54-metre wingspan, watching the A1 into Gateshead.

Tilting 'blinking eye' footbridge that arcs across the Tyne between the Quayside and BALTIC.

The great green steel arch of 1928 that frames the Newcastle skyline, forerunner of Sydney's harbour bridge.

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

Vast converted flour mill on the Gateshead quay, now a free contemporary art gallery with a rooftop view.

Long curving Victorian breakwater at Sunderland with a red-and-white lighthouse and a hidden tunnel beneath.

White-domed Edwardian pleasure dome on Whitley Bay seafront, restored to eateries and a tearoom.

Norman Foster's curved glass-and-steel concert hall on the Gateshead riverbank, formerly Sage Gateshead.

Two and a half miles of clifftop grassland and limestone stacks along the coast from South Shields to Souter.

Britain's oldest and most intact cementation furnace, built around 1730 in the Derwent valley to turn iron bars into steel for tools.