Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

This long-hidden space above Westminster Abbey now displays the battle gear of the legendary King Henry V.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

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

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

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

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

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