Places scionthewing Wants to Go

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

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

This enchanting Victorian estate was home to the world's first hydroelectric power generator.

One of the largest megalithic complexes in England, which local legend holds is a wedding party turned to stone by the Devil.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Have a seat with the father of modern computing at this Manchester monument.

Beasts and branches swirl in sandstone carvings, interrupted by one strange creature.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

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

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

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

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.

6000-year-old site covered in more than 50 megaliths.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

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

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.