The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

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