Places samuelhardman Wants to Go

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

This 12th-century house is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, created when a massive bomb dump accidentally exploded.

Inspired by a dream, a hermit carved out a home in this sandstone bank to live a life of contemplation and prayer.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

This mysterious cross appeared on a farmer's lawn in 1972 and has been attracting pilgrims ever since.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

An homage to the humble watering can.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.