Places LouiseSaturday Wants to Go

A once-beautiful retreat is now a crumbling ruin.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

Home of the infamous Cauld Lad of Hylton and one of the inspirations behind "Alice" in Sunderland.

Royal burial place of the kings of ancient Britain.

Only the headframes remain from this mining operation, once one of the largest in the region.

This castle resides in a valley known for immense bloodshed during the Middle Ages.

Journey through this open museum where even employees remain true to period.

An ancient natural spring still providing water to the nearby village

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A magnificent tomb that was the final resting place of the Dukes of Hamilton.

One of four sister bronze sculptures dedicated to the widows and orphans of an 1881 tragedy.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

Among the large beech trees of Lanarkshire, Scotland, lies this abandoned cemetery.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Erected in memory of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born close to this spot, this statue commemorates the author and his famous detective.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

An unusual style of hall-house standing in a beautiful location over an artificial loch

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

This statue of a celebrated soldier was removed from Dublin and reinstalled in rural Northumberland.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

A ruined tower house fought over in a family feud.

These crumbling ruins are all that's left of the ancestral home of Clan Crawford.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.