The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

Everything from a plane to your own two feet are needed to reach this jungle resort.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

The Guinness Record holder for largest hedge in the world is a verdant Scottish bulwark.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

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

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

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

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

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

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This cramped crevasse saw the entire population of its island suffocated inside its depths.

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