Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.

An Iron Age hill fort turned scenic nature park.

Pivotal in the research of early British Bronze Age life, found near Stonehenge.

The twice-stolen hand of an alleged card cheat, with its final set of playing cards.

Japan’s tallest Godzilla statue contains a piece of the original 1954 film within its base.

A mass of iron named for the fire-dwelling mythological amphibian sits alongside the first west coast iron furnace.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

The final resting place of Dicky Pearce, the last court jester in England.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.