Places Viator Wants to Go

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.

This aging storage facility is the world's largest brick warehouse.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

A whimsical cottage from the 1300s with a preserved Victorian-era post office inside.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

A well for a well, this anachronistically Indian-styled water pit was built in its small town home in gratitude for a similar favor.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

This craggy boulder is fabled to be either a druidic relic or Satan's stumbling block.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

Preserved baths in a Victorian-era spa town frequented by the most famous people of its day.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

A quaint hamlet of nine cottages around a small green near Blaise castle.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

The remnants of a strange stilted building on rails can still be seen at low tide.

A motley, fantastical agglomeration of unlikely houseboats along the Shoreham-by-Sea riverbank.