Places wilsonn Wants to Go

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A student driver's nightmare.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.