Places ameliabryant Wants to Go

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A gallery specifically dedicated to the botanical illustrations of a remarkable traveling lady.

The world's oldest model village.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.