Overlooked by many, the two famous Scottish warriors guard the main gate of Edinburgh Castle.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

A secret garden in a picturesque Edinburgh village has inspired artists for centuries.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Model aircraft soar over 360-degree views of the countryside at the start of England's oldest road.

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.