Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Long abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

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

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

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

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

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

"May prick nor purse ne'er fail you."

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

London's largest outsider art museum.