Places jow22 Wants to Go

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

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

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.