Places AbsoluteNomad Wants to Go

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The remains of a small medieval chapel mark the legendary birthplace of the patron saint of Wales.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

A tiny chapel perched along a 14th-century bridge.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Ireland's most remarkable collection of these curious cone-shaped houses is worth the buzz.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.