"Although I may have my passport taken away for saying this as an Englishman, I found Stonehenge decidedly underwhelming. "It didn't help that at the time I was a university student working as a tour guide, so [I] had to convince 45 Americans on our bus that they were about to undergo a life-changing experience: seeing up close a 4,500-year-old testament to man's ceaseless creativity, brilliance and spiritualism. Courtesy of Chris Dwyer Travel writer Chris Dwyer. "What emerged through the rain was a slightly forlorn collection of large gray stones, about 30 yards away — as close as we could get. A broken-down truck on a busy road running alongside the site didn't exactly help the mystic revelation."