Places Elizabeth Gartley Wants to Go

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

In a small courtyard resides this large mural that draws inspiration from Leeds and its history.

This sculpture celebrates a boules tournament and the link between Leeds and its twin city Lille.

This sculpture of Edward of Woodstock is surrounded by eight Victorian lamp bearers.

Winner of the Leeds Award for Architecture and the Environment.

The name of this suspended sculpture is Latin for "high horse," which is exactly what it is.

Since 1995, two red-painted metal figures have guarded the entrance to the Northern Ballet.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

This small museum is dedicated to telling the 4,000-year story of Palestinian history, culture, and resistance.

All that remains of a 17th-century hamlet is a sprawling non-denominational cemetery.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

One of the oldest universities in the world exhibits thousands of specimens from its 700-year-old collection.

A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.

The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.

The world’s largest street art museum.

This store may be part of a well-known chain, but it stands out due to the tree growing through the middle of it.

An interactive museum where visitors can play through the evolution of video games.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

A stone in a Victorian writer’s garden is a remnant of prehistoric Britain.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.