Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

This abandoned lock-up was saved because of its connection to a local football team.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

A medieval relic whose great hall once hosted Mayflower pilgrims, one of Henry VIII’s ill-fated wives, and plenty of royal intrigue.

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

In the right conditions a wall of water up to five feet tall flows upstream against the current on the River Trent.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

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

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

This plaque remembers a grave mistake that led to one local woman being buried alive.

A face-like natural rock formation so well known, a pub was named in its honor.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.

At the height of alum production at this factory, human urine was a valued commodity.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

This small building nestled along the Dove River is seen by some as the birthplace of angling as a sport.

These abandoned coal mine towers near Sherwood Forest might soon boast the U.K.’s longest zip-line.

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

This two-towered gateway is all that remains of the unluckiest pier in the world.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A local museum honors the overlooked discoveries of Mary Anning, one of the first professional fossil hunters.