Places remcrae Wants to Go

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

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

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

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

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.