Places NikkiJane Wants to Go

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

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

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

This waterfall is one of the most spectacular natural features in the Scottish Lowlands.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.