Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

These "bridges" help confused bats cross the road.

A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

The excellent acoustics of this natural amphitheater made it a popular preaching spot for the founder of the Methodist Church.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Instead of numerals, the unusual clock face spells out a memorial to a lost loved one.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.