Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The heroic tale of a remarkable pup who refused to leave her master's side, no matter what.

This mysterious hilltop collection of Druid carvings isn't quite what it seems.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Nestled atop a wind-swept crag in the Scottish Highlands is a lonely memorial to a beloved hiker.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.