Places Barrabelle Wants to Go

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

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

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

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

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An 11th-century Viking gravestone in a Victorian parish church graveyard.

Mineral well linked to the final days of a beloved Scottish poet.

Perhaps the smallest monument dedicated to one of Great Britain's longest serving monarchs.

A monument to a Russian cruiser near its final resting place off the Ayrshire Coast.

A doctor had this large tub carved into rocks to facilitate easier seawater bathing.