Places alexandranarybeau Wants to Go

This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

Lord Byron's embalmed body lies within this medieval church.

This imaginative sculpture is a memorial to this town's former mining industry.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

In this medieval fish bowl, the carp weren't pets.

A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

This restored 17th century "conduit house," often mistaken for a watchtower, actually supplied water to nearby Bolsover Castle.

The legacy of a social experiment of the 1930s funded by Andrew Carnegie's Charity is a dispersed group of 40 houses of identical original design dotted across 400 acres of Derbyshire agricultural land

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

English Protestants once criticized this enormous private chapel for being too ornate.

This park and coal mine heritage site is home to two of the last steam winding engines in the UK.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

This muddy wooded valley and the ancient structures it hides are said to be the favored haunt of the legendary Friar Tuck.

This lonely memorial marks the supposedly haunted site of a brutal 19th-century murder.

This memorial to a sad event is also an amazing piece of modern art

The English town of Mansfield likely got its name from this enigmatic breast-shaped mound rising abruptly from the earth.

A memorial to American oil drillers who volunteered to travel secretly to England in 1943 and work in the U.K.'s only oil field.

The undercroft is a spectacular example of medieval Cistercian architecture.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

This lonely metal cross may hint at the true location of a medieval showdown between Christian and Pagan kingdoms.