Places jackeccleston Wants to Go

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

The longest sculpture trail in the United Kingdom.

The oldest known metal-mining site in England dates back to the Bronze Age.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

A pair of stones embedded in an Edinburgh street memorialize one of the city's last public hangings.

Come for the oysters, stay for the priceless art honoring inventors across history and Scotland's favorite outdoor sports.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

At this snack-shack in the bucolic British countryside, you can still get a slice of socialism with your spot of tea.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This 19th century police station now puts the history of the Manchester City Police on display.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

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

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.