On a corner of the Ardmeanach peninsula on the Isle of Mull, a 50 million-year-old fossil tree hides in the coastal cliffs.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

Deliberately hidden for centuries, the magnificent Saadian Tombs were eventually uncovered in 1917.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A metal tree emits eerie, melodic notes on top of Lancashire's Crown Point.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A long-abandoned relic of World War II.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

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

An 18th century fountain and two columns are all that remains of Rome's forgotten river harbor.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A painted tribute to an ancient Egyptian king lurks along a stretch of Scottish shore.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

These ancient sea caves hold Britain's highest concentration of Pictish rock carvings.

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

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.