Places Barefootjoe Wants to Go

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

These crude contraptions were used to aid in the mining of lead, silver and gold.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.