Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

Scotland's first free lending library, which protects literacy through inheritance.

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

Some wattle-and-daub, a Moorish mural, a glacial erratic, and a Giant named Gilbert.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

This inn of the court provides a fascinating window into London’s legal and architectural history.

This battery powered bell has been ringing since 1840 and is one of the worlds longest running science experiments.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

Two women with a flair for both adventure and artful clutter created this singular round home.