Places johnw404 Wants to Go

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

Wooden sleds have replaced donkeys to cart goods around this utterly charming car-free village.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

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

This grassy, tree-lined hill shares a name with the much-loved novel that it inspired.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.