Places samireland Wants to Go

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

This stone throne invites adventurers to observe breathtaking views of the Peak District.

Legend says this little-known stone circle is formed from people petrified as punishment for dancing on the Sabbath.

This medieval manor house was equipped with secret compartments for hiding priests.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Floating pink tap installed for a flower show in London.

This amazing trail among the many waterfalls around Ingleton has been enchanting visitors since 1885.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

This lovely ancestral home inspired the author D.H. Lawrence, and features a tunnel made out of a living willow.

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.

These medieval tunnels provided water to the city above through centuries of civil war and plague.