Places embentley1 Wants to Go

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

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This annual harvest parade features intricate floats covered with fruits, vegetables, and seeds.

Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

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

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

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

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.