Places Rainer Heer Wants to Go

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

An enormous steel waterfall is a nod to the substance that shaped Britain's Steel City.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

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

A mysterious demonic figure peers down from its perch within the gorgeous Chester Cathedral.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

The remnants of a depressing public toilet are now a hub of ever evolving street art.

Six neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen.