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

An optical Illusion once believed to be an electrical phenomenon.

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

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

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

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

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

Possibly the oldest of Britain's ancient henges is also one of its most stark.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

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

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

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

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.