Places mamasafari Wants to Go

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

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 longest hedge maze in the world.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

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

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Get three sheets to the wind at this desert winery with a nautical theme.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

One of several Lilliputian portals that are ready to transport passengers to other dimensions, if they can find them.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

A treasure trove of astronomical, mathematical, and scientific instruments at Cambridge University.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.