Places ktknoll Wants to Go

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

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

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.