Places beckedmenson Wants to Go

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

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.

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

These unique stepping stones hug a river's edge to take hikers on a journey through a limestone gorge.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

This ancient abbey now lies in majestic ruin behind a caravan park.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

All that remains of the medieval palace of the famous "Black Prince."

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

A 13th-century fortified manor house that was once sieged during the English Civil War.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

London's only public statue of the much-married monarch adorns the gate to St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.