Places NikkiJane Wants to Go

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

When it came to designing his own small office building, the eccentric architect wasn't afraid to show the world what he could do.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Left by the Devil, an ancient quarry or just plain old erosion, this enigmatic rock pillar rises 28 feet from the hillside.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

The bombed out remains of the old church were kept intact next to the new one, as a reminder of the futility of war.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

Seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for centuries.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.