Places richardgannon Wants to Go

A well preserved remnant of the English Civil War.

A unique clock tower in the garden of an elegant Victorian hall.

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

A ruined priory that was once a favorite pilgrimage site for English kings.

A great example of the enduring medieval decorative construction technique known as flushwork.

A collection of iconic aircraft from WW2 based at a front line fighter airfield and flown by the luckiest pilots in the RAF.

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

Two minuscule windows are tucked inside this medieval building.

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

On this small spit of land, the person who runs the public house is considered the King of Piel Island.

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

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A replica of the famed statue far from home.

In pastoral England, a plaque marks where an imaginary community addressed the problem of combat mortality.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

A small monument on the outskirts of Prague, where one of the bloodiest conflicts in the country's history was decided.