Places annaslyric Wants to Go

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Explore nearly 400 years of English middle-class home life.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

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

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

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