This quaint museum taps into the sweet history of the maple syrup industry.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

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

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

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.