Places cotymela Wants to Go

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

A Victorian-era British railway viaduct has been transformed into an elevated garden.

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

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

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

A Victorian synagogue-turned-museum chronicles centuries of Jewish life.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

Contrary to its heavenly name, this tranquil oasis has a dark and tragic history buried with it (quite literally).

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

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

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

The former home of one of the U.K.’s most notable families of suffragettes is now a museum dedicated to women’s rights.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

A Victorian-era cemetery serves as a window into the city of Bradford’s past.

This 1913 single-screen cinema is a charming survivor in the age of the multiplex.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

The world's largest collection of preserved trolleybuses.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).