Spend the night with the Kings.
We had to throw in a handful of fantastic all-around trip experiences. And what can compare to a castle? It is, after all, a castle. Thornbury Castle, in the Cotswolds, is a beautiful 16th century Tudor house. It provides guests with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sleep in the same room as one of history's most famous couples, King Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn.
The identical arrow-slit windows Anne Boleyn peered out of nearly 500 years ago are accentuated by exposed stone walls. The decor is as genuine as possible, and spending the night in the Duke's Bedchamber at Thornbury is the pinnacle of 16th-century splendor. A trip through British blue-blood history spanning half a millennium.
