Places popeyethecat Wants to Go

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This operational mill has survived centuries of destruction and construction.

The incredible private taxidermy collection of an eccentric zoologist.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

This painted wooden sculpture depicts the characters of a popular Devon folk song.

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.