Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The now-quiet remains of coastal artillery defenses that were used in both World Wars.

Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.

Long before wi-fi, this public seat provided the wonder of being online while outdoors.

The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

This industrial museum is based on one of the oldest standing iron forges in the U.K.

This bizarre English competition answers the important question: how many worms can YOU coax out of the ground?

An iconic waterwheel in the Pennine Hills marks the location of one of Britain’s most profitable lead mines.

A disastrous D-Day rehearsal was relatively unknown until this sunken tank was discovered 40 years later.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

This industrial chimney looks rather out of place, isolated in the middle of an attractive woodland.

The history of this famed tree ranges from an 18th-century highway robber, to the Scout Association.

The first German gnome who popularized the garden decoration.

Where the rules of that most quintessentially English game were first devised by an eccentric inventor.

In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

A picturesque garden with a surprising past.

This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.

The site of the notorious Great Train Robbery of £2.6 million, one of the biggest heists in English history.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.