Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

The oldest candy store in England has been selling traditional sweets since 1827.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

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

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.