Places mscpilot Wants to Go

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.

Inside this magnificent 12th-century church is one of the finest carved wagon-roofs in all of England.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The world's largest museum devoted solely to the whirlybird comes complete with its own chopper graveyard.

One of the best-preserved examples of an old town lock-up in the country.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

A geothermal pool in North Iceland that is said to be the bathing spot of the legendary Grettir the Strong.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.