Places slightlyspecial1too Wants to Go

Hundreds of people walk past this palm tree every day without spotting its secret.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

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

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

After the band included its number in one of their songs, the box became a monument to the musical group.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

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

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

No other place in Scotland has such a high concentration of prehistoric carved stone surfaces.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

A sculpture commemorating the "world's best mouser" in what is likely Scotland's longest-running distillery

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.

As part of an 800-year-old tradition, a man parades through town covered in a suit made out of spiky burrs.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.