Places LeahRumsey Wants to Go

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

The highest peak in Northern Ireland is topped with a stone tower and haunting burial mounds.

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

This mountain is one of the largest in Scotland but is better known for its hollow insides.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A hollowed tree transformed into a fairytale wonder.

One of the trees in Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens is actually a World War II memorial, and it's made of metal.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

Also known as “Robin Hood’s tree,” it became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down.

Welcome to the greenest place in Greenland.

On a corner of the Ardmeanach peninsula on the Isle of Mull, a 50 million-year-old fossil tree hides in the coastal cliffs.

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

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

These centuries old gardens have been restored to their 17th century condition.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

This English medieval castle is where King John died of dysentery.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

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

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.