Places sarahltait Wants to Go

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

The highest peak in all of England is plagued by dangerously fickle climate shifts.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

This tiny little cave was said to have been a refuge for a saint with a glowing arm.

Vast fan-shaped British cemetery honouring American servicemen lost in World War II.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

A modest stone circle in North Wales.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.