Places vildem Wants to Go

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

One of Manchester’s museums has gathered and preserved British political paraphernalia covering over 200 years.

These lovely Turkish-styled baths were brought back to life after winning a reality show competition.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This bronze sculpture represents the helpless, hapless, and the damned who have passed through Piccadilly station since it opened in 1842

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

One of the oldest Rolls-Royce automobiles in existence, this vehicle was once driven by Henry Royce himself.

When the city of Manchester built a new centralized heating network, they did it with style.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

This mysterious wheel-cross is the tallest in Britain.

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

A sculpture of a partly-buried Roman helmet commemorates a North Wales town’s connection with its Roman past.

Britain's oldest miniature railway.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

One family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in Wales.