Places rikwilliams Wants to Go

This toxic spoil heap found a second life as a ski slope, popular film location, and wildlife haven.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

Visit on a Sunday morning to see some killer tricks.

This unassuming Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of author Lewis Carroll.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

Many of Edinburgh's more unsavory characters spent their final days behind this door while awaiting their executions.

Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.

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

This may be the last of London's wooden pavements, which were once a common sight in the city.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This centuries-old pub boasts a collection of more than 4,500 snippets of neckties from around the world.

Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.

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

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

This tiny business claims to be "the smallest pub on the planet."

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

The sign marks one of the endpoints to mainland Britain's longest overland travel route.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.