Places NikkiJane Wants to Go

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

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.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

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

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

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