Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.