Places inesgmartins Wants to Go

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

The strange behavior of a tween led to allegations of witchcraft and a curse being placed on anybody within earshot.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

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

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.