Places sterlingh Wants to Go

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.

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

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Giant naked man on a hillside.

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

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

One could not be blamed for literally walking all over this supposed landmark.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

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

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

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