This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

This Birnam-based garden honors the legacy of 19th-century children’s book author Beatrix Potter.

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

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

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

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

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

A verdant 17th-century-style garden hidden along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

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

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

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

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.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

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

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.