Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

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

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

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

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

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

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