Places LeslieDriskill Wants to Go

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

The remains of the oldest synagogue in Britain lay forgotten for seven centuries, hidden under a humble shop.

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

This unusual geoglyph was built as a warning so low-flying aircraft wouldn't scare the zoo animals.

This Edwardian workhouse tells a harrowing story of those who were forced to trade hard labor for lodging.

This public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United Kingdom.

A grand Wetherspoon pub set in a former opera house dating back to 1902.

A relic of medieval punishment marks the center of this quintessential English village.

You can climb to the top of the column built to honor the "father of British inland navigation."

Near this allegedly haunted pub, you can find strong spirits on the rocks.

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

It's believed Matilda Fitzwalter's life was the basis for the famed literary figure.

Local legend says this unusual chimney is actually a broken-hearted man's tomb.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

This Great Dunmow pond was a breeding ground for medical leeches, as well as the testing ground for the world's first lifeboat.