Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

The remains of one of Wales’ great medieval buildings, with a pub in the cellar.

This ancient abbey now lies in majestic ruin behind a caravan park.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

Go deep down into the earth to experience the world of Welsh coal miners.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

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

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

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

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

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

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.