Places jow22 Wants to Go

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

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

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

Scotland's oldest medieval bridge is also among the last reminders of early medieval Aberdeen.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Long-secret natural history museum, featuring the skull of a "Terror Bird."

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

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

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.