Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

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

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.