Places rikwilliams Wants to Go

This museum honors the young maritime hero who became an unexpected Victorian-era celebrity.

These marks in Myddelton Passage aren't your run-of-the-mill vandalism, and they weren't made by your typical vandal.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

The remains of the man who founded Pennsylvania lie in an unassuming grave in the English countryside.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

This octagonal cottage is the smallest and the oldest council house in the United Kingdom.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

Some of the earliest leaders of the Moravian congregation are buried here.

Scars from the English Civil War mar this medieval sanctuary.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

A memorial to the politician who became Great Britain's first fatality to be caused by a locomotive.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

Locals affectionately dubbed this World War I memorial "Tommy."

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

This aircraft museum is home to one of just three Halifax bombers in the world.

This suburban British town holds secrets that would have made the druids proud.

A giant scrawl on the skyline of south London.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

This ancient fort overlooks the site of a disastrous retreat from the English Civil War.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."