Places alexismsw Wants to Go

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.