Places AKJ Wants to Go

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

The only panel of the Great Tapestry of Scotland that has been replaced, after the original was stolen.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Beneath this headstone lie the severed body parts of three individuals who were caught up in a bloody period of Scottish history.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

Victorian-era cemetery full of interesting local history among the graves.

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Built for herding sheep, these tiny winding lanes with medieval origins and distinctive series of narrow turns are charming walkways for humans today.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

Estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, this yew may be Britain’s oldest.

Britain’s highest medieval monastery is a remote ruin nestled at the head of a valley 1,240 feet above the sea.

The remains of one of Wales’ great medieval buildings, with a pub in the cellar.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.