Ardales, Spain
El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Pathway)
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Ardales, Spain
Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Barcelona, Spain
A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
Barcelona, Spain
One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.
Bushmills, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Morpeth, England
This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.
Cramlington, England
A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.
Kielder, England
England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.
Sheffield, England
Amidst towering office buildings, a local pub lives inside Sheffield’s oldest surviving domestic building.
Sheffield, England
One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.
Baildon, England
This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.
Richmond, England
At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.
Hawes, England
A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.
Whitby, England
The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.
Keld, England
The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.
Lancaster, England
A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.
Ripon, England
Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.
Thirsk, England
The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.
Bingley, England
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Coleford, England
The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.