Places georgemagraw Wants to Go

Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

This Sheffield sculpture composed of 17,000 Allen keys honors both urban falcons and a furniture icon.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

One of three sites in England that house the National Collection of Arms and Armour.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

The next-door homes of two very different musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.