Places Barrabelle Wants to Go

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

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

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

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.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

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

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.