Places nicolaleigh Wants to Go

The only pub in the world surrounded by an ancient stone circle.

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

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.

These ancient ruins were the final resting place of King Henry II's mistress.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

The grand complex of buildings that comprise Liverpool's Exchange Flags includes a vast World War II bunker that has been frozen in time.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

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

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.