Places Chouxie Wants to Go

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

A unique tribute to the chocolatey past that helped shape one British city.

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

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

An abandoned canal route lies hidden under the streets of Manchester.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

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.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

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

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

A repurposed railway tunnel with otherworldly acoustic characteristics.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

A stone obelisk towering over the surrounding countrysides beckons hikers across the rolling moors.

A museum devoted to the science of color.

A unique sculpture park that features the works of several famed artists.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.