Places maryshilina Wants to Go

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

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

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

This picturesque view of the Scottish Borders was beloved by Sir Walter Scott.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.