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

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

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

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

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

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

Remnants of the 16th-century defensive wall still stand unassumingly within Edinburgh.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

The "Black Arch" guards the entrance to the picturesque Glens of Antrim.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.