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

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world