Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

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

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

The world's shortest street was created by an awkwardly placed hotel.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

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

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

The Greek island's old British cemetery feels like a forgotten garden.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

Touching this 18th-century Scottish philosopher’s toe allegedly conjures good fortune.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.