Scotland's first Masonic lodge may also be the oldest in the world.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Neon artworks light up this dark Edinburgh tunnel.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

These rusting, skeletal structures are monolithic monuments to Glasgow's industrial past

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

This popular square's history as the former site of a church is right beneath your feet.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.