Places Viator Wants to Go

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

You will not be able to miss this building.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

This 17th-century pub once had a hole in its wall so the neighboring blacksmith could easily access beer.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

Local legend says Isaac Newton built this footbridge without any screws, bolts, or nails.

England's foremost purveyor of funeral furniture hasn't changed a bit since the 1960s.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

A monolithic monument in Greater London.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.