Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.