Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

The last two abbots of this monastery were both executed by Henry VIII.

An 800-year-old island castle in Guernsey's main harbor.

Red, white, and blue painted steps along with a Union Jack celebrate the outcome of Gibraltar's 1967 referendum.

A secluded green oasis amidst the towering skyscrapers, bears an unusual moniker that reflects one of the city's oldest guilds.

Located on the Islandmagee peninsula, these gardens are among the most distinguished in County Antrim.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

This may be the smallest length of railway in the United Kingdom.

The last fully working Victorian Turkish bath in England.

One of the world’s leading and most extensive archives on the Holocaust, the Nazi era, and genocide, this collection includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs, and eyewitness testimony.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This seemingly normal pathway actually forms a giant fingerprint.

The remains of a Dominican friary, once one of the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom.

Once a year, a sandbar rises from the depths just in time for the world's weirdest match.

A deserted medieval village where bodies were once mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead.

The southernmost toilet in the British Isles.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

The world's oldest railway bridge in continuous use.

This iconic building was founded as a school for the impoverished, but became one for the sons of the local gentry.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

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

Named after a lodging site that existed nearby, a bridge has existed at this location since 1455.

A plaque is all that remains of a lost Oxford transport hub.

A museum pays tribute to the glass-making industry of Sunderland.

A fantastic example of Victorian railway engineering with two unusual decorative features.