Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.