Places charleyspoons Wants to Go

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

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

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A student driver's nightmare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.