Places MairiW Wants to Go

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A student driver's nightmare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.