Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Lit & Phil
This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.
Kastrup, Denmark
The traveling wares of Denmark's most famous author.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.
Copenhagen, Denmark
One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.
Houghton le Spring, England
The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.
Monkwearmouth, England
This tribute to Sunderland's mining past stands outside the home of its football club.
Sunderland, England
This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.
Sunderland, England
A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.
Sunderland, England
An enigmatic sculpture depicts a ruined home with debris stretching for over half a mile along the river.
Sunderland, England
A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.
Sunderland, England
This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.
Sunderland, England
A tribute to the city's rich history of shipbuilding.
Coventry, England
Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.
Coventry, England
All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.
Coventry, England
This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.
Coventry, England
The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.
Coventry, England
Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.
Coventry, England
All that remains of the medieval palace of the famous "Black Prince."
Coventry, England
For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Syracuse, Italy
According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.
Oxford, England
This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.
Oxford, England
An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.
Maidstone, England
This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.