Places Crawdie Wants to Go

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.