Places tommimeckley2 Wants to Go

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

This early Norman castle was the first historical monument protected by an act of Parliament.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

This striking observation tower shaped like a spinnaker sail is the newest icon in historic Portsmouth.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

Ireland's only German military cemetery holds the remains of a spy who was moved there under the cover of darkness.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.

See some of the world's greatest racing horses at this idyllic thoroughbred breeding facility and garden complex.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.