Places AbbieV Wants to Go

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A museum dedicated to Wales’ favorite—and strangest-looking—watercraft.

Since the Middle Ages, this stone has been used as a place to bless fishing boats moored at the nearby landing stage.

This magical grotto is adorned with a complex pattern of native seashells, minerals, and fragments of colored glass.

This rocky outcrop served as a quarry for some of the bluestones that sit at the center of Stonehenge.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

A Neolithic tomb hidden among a spectacular boulder-strewn stretch of coast.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

A plaque honoring those who, in 1963, changed civil rights in Britain.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Cathedral-like Victorian vaults are hidden within this iconic bridge.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.