Places steffiweirdtalk Wants to Go

A renovated henge and stone circle just south of Stanton Harcourt village.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

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

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The memorial to this brutal battle between the English and the Scots has a surprisingly humble origin.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The site of the fossilized remains of some of Earth’s earliest primitive, microbial life forms.

Every spring brings a colorful tribute to this wizardly actor's most famous role.

The Pamir Highway between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan takes a mere hour driving through a stretch of No Man’s Land.

At this leafy estate, one man’s passion for trees grew into Arbor Day.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

A small, but very well curated, museum of cars, propaganda, and toys of socialist Bulgaria.