Places annaslyric Wants to Go

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

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

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.