Places differentscheme Wants to Go

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

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

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

The patches of trees pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II.

A gardener saved a beloved clock face from destruction by building it into a wall outside his house.

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

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

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

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

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

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

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

A wooden statue commemorates a local celebrity who became a national sensation for his height.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The former home of a railway legend and the site of a gigantic labyrinth.

Pizza with a side of fine art.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.