This alley off Edinburgh's Royal Mile contains remnants of the city's seedier history.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.

This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.

This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

The lighthouse is on a island which is connected to another island, which is connected to another island, which is connected to one of the largest islands in the world.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

A stone monument acknowledging Scotland's right to have a separate Parliament from the one in Westminster.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.

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