Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

Historic cuisine meets fine dining in a hotel-restaurant overlooking Hyde Park.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.

The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The remains of an anti-aircraft battery from World War II look out over Glasgow.

Arthur, Merlin, and Guinevere are among the largest and oldest satellite dishes on the planet.

Water-themed sculptures guard this unusually square structure.

A beautiful medieval bridge allegedly constructed by the Devil.

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

Abandoned for over 20 years, this Art Deco seaside swimming pool is a magnificent waste.