Places ShellybearG Wants to Go

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

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

One of the oldest libraries in England, and one of the last of the great medieval chained collections.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

London's old-school healing garden.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.