Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Colorful outcrops and cliffs just north of Reno provide a scenic backdrop for hiking and mountain biking.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.