Places michaelhordern Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The largest oak in England is said to have been the hideout of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

Helped by a surprise posthumous donation this small town toy museum features over 5,000 vintage playthings.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

Where Aleister Crowley attempted to seize the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in a mask and a kilt.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.