Places samireland Wants to Go

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

Taxidermied animals galore, by appointment only.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.