This tiny weathered plot is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Scotland.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.

This whimsical sculpture garden is a local treasure.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A circus of light and sound forms a sensory ode to an iconic train that will never pass through town again.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Tiny effigies of the victims of Edinburgh's famous Anatomy Murders.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

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

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

17th century streets hidden under Edinburgh were once a breeding ground for the black death.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

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

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Home to the most complete dodo remains known - one head, and one foot.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.