Places blackwidow Wants to Go

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

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.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

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

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

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

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

Where Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926.

The only electricity pylon under whose legs you can go by boat.

A preserved 18th century steel factory.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

Machismo turned on its head: the lady's hand goes to the dude with the bigger brain.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.