Places NikkiJane Wants to Go

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

A series of idealized caves carved to entertain guests.

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

This ancient castle has been abandoned since the Edwardian conquest of Wales.

Now in ruins, this castle stood for centuries and saw a number of gruesome events.

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.

One of the highest Roman forts in Britain is set amid dramatic scenery on a notoriously difficult road.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

Cascading waterfalls mark the gateway to the ancient burial place of Clan Macnab.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

Believed to be the smallest castle in Europe.

This ruined castle is said to be the legendary keep of a Viking princess.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The unusual stilted beacon is the town's only active lighthouse.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to England's legendary King Alfred the Great.

This Neolithic stone circle is the most complete of its kind in Scotland.

Some believe that the stone once used to coronate Scottish kings resides inside this bar.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.