Places Finlay Cordiner Wants to Go

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Neolithic burial chambers hidden beside a village school.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This pub can leave even the sober feeling slightly unsteady.

This building played host to some of the most influential minds of the Industrial Revolution and now serves as a reminder of the influence of Northern coalfields.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

In the middle of a barren moorland, the remnants of a lost British Space Age stand like a 20th-century Stonehenge.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

The first museum in the United Kingdom dedicated to this woodwind instrument.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

Learn local history while picking up groceries at this museum tucked inside a supermarket.