Places michaelhordern Wants to Go

A cheeky tribute to a comedy legend.

Long before Moo Deng, this 17th-century waterfowl was a cultural sensation.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.

An iconic British fixture in an unconventional color.

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

One of the most studied Iron Age settlements in Europe.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Thought to be Britain’s earliest purpose-built viewing station, this small hut frames a magical waterfall.

A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.