Places alxndr Wants to Go

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

Near this allegedly haunted pub, you can find strong spirits on the rocks.

This 400-year-old house tells a tale of witchcraft and woodwork.

It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.

Historical etchings such as “Miserable, wild, distracted 1350" and “The Archdeacon is an ass.”

This suburban British town holds secrets that would have made the druids proud.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

In this scale model, our neighboring planets are represented by metal spheres spread across an English village. The nearest stars are represented by spheres in California and Australia.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

In 1927, a biplane disappeared while attempting to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight between Paris and New York City. This memorial stands at the last place it was seen.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.