Places hanlwhit Wants to Go

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

Around 30 ship figureheads are housed at this 11th-century abbey and gardens.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A tiny replica of the iconic London landmark hides on the side of the steel structure.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

Legend has it this gnarled old tree was planted by Tsar Peter the Great during his visit to London.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.