Places jessicacripps Wants to Go

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

This delightful hidden farm is home to Victorian ruins and a wonderful menagerie of animals.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

The house where Charles Darwin's grandfather formed many of his influential ideas and inventions.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

This historic home of the author of Lawrence of Arabia, has a history of literary celebrities and monogrammed sleeping bags.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.