Places R Sevens Wants to Go

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

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

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

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

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

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

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.