Places johnw404 Wants to Go

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

A powerful statue sits on Scalestone Point, looking out over Morecambe Bay.

A statue paying homage to a world-record-setting aviator who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

A stone, covered in metal, commemorating an event that happened somewhere else a thousand years ago.

This round structure dotted with portals is one of several pieces scattered throughout Lancashire.

This unusual sculpture is sometimes partially, sometimes fully, submerged.

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.

A replica of the gaslit streetlamp under which three teenagers founded a football club.

This building contains a door only used by members of the royal family.

This is Britain's one and only clock concealed in the pavement.

Crafted by one of the first makers of stoneware in England.

A jumble of concrete on the corner of one of London’s terraced buildings is actually a work of art.

The influential philosopher's old residence is commemorated in a small English town.

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

These stained-glass windows are all that remains of a building that was the target of one of the biggest explosions in London after World War II.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Visit the grave of a famous feminist author and the mother of Mary Shelley.

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.

A face-like natural rock formation so well known, a pub was named in its honor.

The ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian monastery can be found alongside World War II tank traps and pillboxes.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.