Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

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

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

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

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

A strangely curved lamppost stands tall over this avenue in Rotterdam.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.