Places remcrae Wants to Go

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Detailed sandstone carvings show an array of symbolism and adorable animals.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

17th century puritan church with connections to the Salem Witch Trials.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

This wild game of "football" between two sections of an English town has been staged every year for countless centuries.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

One could not be blamed for literally walking all over this supposed landmark.