I can't speak for the other two countries but you'd have some difficulty finding beautiful places in Britain that are not well-known, because there are any number of beautiful places here, but they are all easy to reach.
Well-publicised too, including by glossy-magazine journalists paid to find "hidden gems" and "secret places" in order to ensure they are no longer "hidden" or "secret" (not that they ever were, of course).
I have found them, but it's a secret. That's why they are lesser known. Just look at an OS Explorer map, Find a footpath with woodland and streams and hills and valleys and go exploring. Be prepared for some adventure along paths that haven't been walked in decades. There are many places around where I live where you could think you were in a tropical jungle.@ArishMell
@James57 Yes, indeed. In my teens I would explore the countryisde on foot, not usually off the roads though, equipped with no more than a packed lunch and an One-inch Ordnance Survey map. The "Explorer" series had not yet started.
A friend told me he was once asked by a group of walkers in the Three Peaks area, if he knew of any good walking guide-books to the area.
The Explorer range may be new but in my childhood, they were available as the two and a half inch or 1:25000 scale maps, covering a much smaller area, more convenient for walking. It was my father, a scout leader, who gave me my love of maps. A map is better than a good book. For a place to be beautiful, you don't need a view. Some of the best places are hidden forest glades in a deep valley with a stream running over boulders, sunlight hinting through the trees, damp moss on the ground. Truly magical.
@James57 That is a lovely place indeed, and I agree completely that there are more than sweeping vistas.
I love looking at maps anyway, and I have an atlas to help me understand events in the News better.
Maths was always about my weakest subject at school, and I am not much better now, but I did find basic three-dimensional [(x,y,z)] co-ordinate geometry straightforwards because I could see it as an abstract version of the NGR and altitude markings on maps.
