Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

A dark Victorian well house now plays host to mystical waters and pagan shrines.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

This East End pub gained notoriety as the site where gangster Ronnie Kray publicly shot a rival.