Tongwynlais, Wales
Castell Coch (The Red Castle)
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
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Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
Caernarfon, Wales
The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.
Cardiff, Wales
A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.
Llanberis, Wales
The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.
Gwynedd, Wales
A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."
London, England
A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.
London, England
London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.
Hawarden, Wales
At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
London, England
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
Glasgow, Scotland
"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."
London, England
One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.
London, England
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Chester, England
A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.
Gwynedd, Wales
The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.
Port Talbot, Wales
The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.
Dunfermline, Scotland
A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.
London, England
A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
Chester, England
Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.