The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland's second largest island emit an entrancing sound.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

A domed disco abandoned since the '70s now attracts artists and explorers under its unique roof.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

This unusually shaped fortress houses a blend of centuries-old frescoes and modern art.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.