Places Will Wants to Go

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

This living legend of maritime history is enjoying a second life.

Part museum, part piece of Arthurian-inspired history, this stately hall attracts King Arthur fans from miles away.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

The sanctuary seems to either float atop the water or sink into the dirt, depending on the water level.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.

A well preserved remnant of the English Civil War.

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

This park and coal mine heritage site is home to two of the last steam winding engines in the UK.

One of the last remnants of the Bessemer process that revolutionized steel production during the industrial age.

Once a training ground for Olympic athletes, this artificial ski slope has fallen into ruin after a fire in 2012.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.